shorts

Meaning of shorts

noun
  1. A short circuit.
  2. A short film.
  3. A short version of a garment in a particular size.
    38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
  4. A shortstop.
    Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.
  5. A short seller.
    The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
  6. A short sale.
    He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
  7. A summary account.
  8. A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
  9. An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
  10. An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
verb
  1. To cause a short circuit in (something).
  2. Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
  3. To shortchange.
  4. To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
    This is the third time I’ve caught them shorting us.
  5. To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
  6. To shorten.
noun
  1. Trousers worn primarily in warm weather that do not go lower than the knees.
    Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts.
  2. Underwear bottoms.
    After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts.
  3. Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
  4. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
  5. Short, inferior hemp.

Information about shorts

  • The singular form of shorts is: short.
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Hyphenation of shorts

shorts

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • shorts is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

shorts synonyms

Meaning short pants:

trunks

Meaning drawers:

drawers, underdrawers, boxers

Anagrams of shorts

horsts

Words that rhyme with shorts

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