shorts

/ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/

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.

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.

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.

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