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Trotskyite Communists, individually (singular) and collectively (plural, more usual). This approach to communism seeks to spread it around the world, rather than to consolidate the system in the home country. From Leon Trotsky. Used because of its potential links to the trots.
This lead "The Trotskyite faction disrupted the Maoist speaker at the Party Convention" could be re-written as a headline: "Maoist speaker interrupted by a dose of the Trots."
The way those Trots carry on gives me the trots.
Trot on is derived from the phrase jog on which featured in the 2004 British film "The Football Factory," usage varies, however it is normally used to tell someone to go away or get lost, it is rarely used with malice.
citizen 1: Hey mate, you got a filter I can nab?
citizen 2: Trot on son, use a roach.
Short for Trotskyist. Usually but not always an offensive term, used by opponents of Trotskyism of both left and right persuasions (usually as a descriptive noun, "the trots").
In some settings, such as the National Union of Students, the insult is so pervasive that anyone to the left of Hitler is liable to be labelled a "trot" at one point or another, because the NUS right-wing associate any challenge to their rule with a conspiracy allegedly initiated by a long-defunct Trotskyist group called Socialist Organiser.
The term also crops up sometimes in anarchist and ecological attacks on Trotskyists. It is also occasionally used by Trotskyists themselves, apparently as a "reclaimed" term, only heard within the Trotskyist in-group, although this is contentious and some reject the term completely.
Its derogatory implications probably come from its associations with the trots in its other sense.
Vote for this right-wing motion - don't listen to all the student trots!
The trots are trying to take over this campaign group
Consecutively.
Tends to emphasize the impressiveness of such a concatenation.
He ate four hamburgers on the trot.