shorts
See also: short s
English edit
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shorts
Noun edit
shorts pl (plural only)
- pants or trousers worn for sports or in warmer weather that do not go lower than the knees.
- Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts.
- (dated) underpants.
- After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts.
- 2015, George Carlin, 3 X Carlin: An Orgy of George Including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?:
- And always, when the food arrives, send something back. It's considered very sophisticated. But make sure you use colorful language. Tell him, "Waiter, this veal tastes like the inside front panel of Ferdinand Magellan's shorts. And I'm referring to the first voyage."
- (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
- The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
- 1847, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, volume II, →OCLC, page 822:
- […] the first remove above bran is shorts ; the next above that is sharps
- Short, inferior hemp.
Derived terms edit
- basketball shorts
- Bermuda shorts
- bib shorts
- biking shorts
- boardshorts
- board shorts
- booty shorts
- boxer shorts
- boy-shorts
- boy shorts
- cargo shorts
- compression shorts
- cover shorts
- cycle shorts
- cycling shorts
- dress shorts
- eat my shorts
- get one's shorts in a knot
- gym shorts
- jockey shorts
- longs and shorts
- pekpek shorts
- playshorts
- poom-poom shorts
- pum-pum shorts
- safety shorts
- short shorts
- shorty shorts
- sleep shorts
- split shorts
- swimming shorts
- swimshorts
- undershorts
- walking shorts
- walk shorts
Translations edit
plural of short — see short
pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees
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Verb edit
shorts
- third-person singular simple present indicative of short
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shorts m
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortser, definite plural shortsene)
Synonyms edit
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- “shorts” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortsar, definite plural shortsane)
- shorts (as above)
Synonyms edit
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- “shorts” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shorts m pl (plural only)
- Alternative form of short
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shorts m pl (plural only)
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shorts pl
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Declension of shorts | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | - | - | shorts | shortsen |
Genitive | - | - | shorts | shortsens |