Cryptic crossword clue
Old women no longer advocates of revolution 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TROTS

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What does TROTS mean?

TROTS noun
  1. A supporter of Trotskyism.
TROTS noun
  1. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
  2. Equipment with legs.
  3. Type of equipment.
  4. A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
  5. The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  6. An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
  7. (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
  8. (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
TROTS noun
  1. Heroin (drug).
TROTS noun
  1. An ugly old woman, a hag.
  2. (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
  3. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
  4. A brisk journey or progression.
  5. A toddler.
  6. A young animal.
  7. A moderately rapid dance.
  8. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
  9. (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
  10. (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
TROTS verb
  1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
  2. (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
  3. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
TROTS noun
  1. Diarrhoea/diarrhea.
  2. (with "the") A trotting race meet; harness racing.

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