backdoor trots

backdoor trot(s)

Diarrhea. "Backdoor" refers to the now-outdated practice of using an outhouse. Something I ate has given me a serious case of the backdoor trots, ugh. I have to avoid coffee altogether if I don't want to have the backdoor trots later in the day. Never drink tap water in this country, unless you want to end up with a savage case of the backdoor trots.

See also: backdoor

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backdoor trot(s)

n. a case of diarrhea. (From the time when people had to go out the back door to the outhouse.) I can’t go out tonight. I got a case of the backdoor trots.

See also: backdoor, trot

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