What is "the trots"

Usage examples of "the trots".

I saw which way the wind was blowing and ate some laundry soap and got the trots the morning of Waterloo, and I missed but nothing, I tell you.

I saw which way the wind was blowing and ate some laundry soap and got the trots the morning of Waterloo, and I missed but nothing I tell you.

That armoury in the nor'-west tower, there-aye, well, some clever feller has laid a powder-train to he magazine, and there's enough loose powder lying about to give an artilleryman the trots-with a burned-out slow fuse in the middle of it!

Most customers end up with the trots, if they're lucky, with the peppers still burning on the way out.

Although, he thought, the green-filled ones always give me the trots.

Orson Bollinger's crowd, which I suppose is my crowd, could be having a collective case of the trots.

Most customers end up with the trots, if theyre lucky, with the peppers still burning on the way out.