Trots mean diarrhea?

Also referrerd to as the runs and the squirts. she has the trots is more correct. she has trots sounds like she has a disease called trots.

Yes. But it's usually *the* trots. Because when you have diarrhoea, it makes you run fast, to the toilet, like a trotting horse.

In Australia we would say “she has *the* trots.”

P.S. Diarrhea (American English), diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English). Yes, we do still occasionally use œ. And why not. It's fun.

Yes. The term comes from when one has to go urgently, you trot (run) to the bathroom.

Yes, "the trots" is diarrhoea. I've never heard anyone say just "trots".

Lots of people here confirming but I’ll add that as an American in the South I’ve never ever heard this.

From the Midwest: I’ve never heard that. We have a very similar one. The runs. She has the runs.

Yes, it’s “*the*” trots. *Always* with the article. It’s not something I hear very often these days, though. My dad (in his 70’s) says it, and I think he means it as a slightly less crass way of saying “diarrhea.” I remember they said it a few times on the TV show “Friends,” which was produced in the 90’s and early aughts. Ex. “Tea give Phoebe the trots.” Side note: there’s a lot of euphemism drift, shifts in the perceived crassness, cultural and slang differences, and delicate context stuff when it comes to words used to describe poop. [US, millennial, female, three masters degrees, East Coast and Mountain West]

In the US, we'd say "she has the runs." It's just diarrhea, because you usually have to run to the bathroom when the urge hits.

“Trots” without the article, as a noun, is an old-fashioned term for an interlinear or facing page translation of a classical Latin or Greek text. Which is pretty different from “the trots”.

USA - Never heard that in my life.

Also "the galloping trots". UK.

"The trots" is a common expression for diarrhoea here in the UK. You can say "the runs" or "the shits" too

[Yes.](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/trots)

Yeah, though you would say 'She has the trots.' It's a common expression here in Australia and also I believe in the UK, though someone from the UK might have to confirm that for me.