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Jog trot   /dʒɑg trɑt/   Listen
noun
Jog  n.  
1.
A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt. "To give them by turns an invisible jog."
2.
A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane.
3.
A liesurely running pace. See jog (2), v. i.
Jog trot, a slow, regular, jolting gait; hence, a routine habit or method, persistently adhered to.





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"Jog trot" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleased at this change than most men would have been in his position. He had got into a groove and did not care to get out of it. He had no relatives or any one dependent on him, and he had been well content to go on in a jog trot way, just paying his expenses of shop and living. The extra bustle and push ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... went by, the old horse at a jog trot, and after it came a two-seated rockaway, and after that a carryall, and around the curve in the road appeared more vehicles of the same patterns, tapering off to a ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney


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