intransitive. Of an animal, esp. a horse: to rise by springing from the hind legs; to move by a succession of such springs. †Also transitive, with…

intransitive. To assume a pompous or ostentatious gait; to strut, swagger, sashay. Also occasionally of an animal, as a prancing horse, a…

intransitive. To prance (in various senses); to caper, dance; to parade. Formerly also †transitive with it (obsolete).

To walk with an affected air of dignity or importance, stepping stiffly with head erect. Also with it, and with adverb, as about, off. (The current…

intransitive. To walk with stiff, high, measured steps, like a long-legged bird. Usually with disparaging notion, implying haughtiness, sullenness…

Variant or error for jet, v.1, to strut.

Of persons: To march in a confident or demonstrative fashion; to strut; to prance, prank.

intransitive. To strut ostentatiously, parade. rare (archaic in later use).

intransitive. To walk proudly, strut.

intransitive. To behave with an air of superiority, in a blustering, insolent, or defiant manner; now esp. to walk or carry oneself as if among…

intransitive. To strut. In quot. 1619 with it. Obsolete.

intransitive. Perhaps: to walk, strut.

transferred. To move about aimlessly, restlessly, sportively, or ostentatiously; to flit, hover.

intransitive. To walk jauntily or affectedly; (also) to walk daintily or with precise movements; to mince. (Perhaps influenced by prink, v.2 1b.)

= jet, v.1

intransitive. To move with a self-important air.

To walk with the legs wide apart; dialect ‘to swagger, strut’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).

intransitive. Chiefly Scottish. To walk with an air of importance; to strut. Also with about, up and down.

intransitive. To walk or move in a manner suggestive of the participants in a cakewalk (cakewalk, n. 1a), esp. to walk in a strutting or dignified…

intransitive. Frequently with adv. To move or walk ostentatiously, conspicuously, or provocatively; to strut or parade.