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1.nounA short circuit.
2.nounA short film.
3.nounA short version of a garment in a particular size."38 short suits fit me right off the rack."
4.nounA shortstop."Jones smashes a grounder between third and short."
5.nounA short seller."The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne."
6.nounA short sale."He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months."
7.nounA summary account.
8.nounA short sound, syllable, or vowel.
9.nounAn integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
10.nounAn automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
11.verbTo cause a short circuit in (something).
12.verbOf an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
13.verbTo shortchange.
14.verbTo provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount."This is the third time I’ve caught them shorting us."
15.verbTo 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.
16.verbTo shorten.
17.nounTrousers worn primarily in warm weather that do not go lower than the knees."Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts."
18.nounUnderwear bottoms."After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts."
19.nounRemnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
20.nounThe part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
21.nounShort, inferior hemp.