Shorthorn
noun
one of an English breed of red, white, or roan beef cattle, some having short horns and some naturally hornless.
Shorthorn
American
[shawrt-hawrn]
/ ˈʃɔrtˌhɔrn /
noun
shorthorn
British
/ ˈʃɔːtˌhɔːn /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Shorthorn
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When she recognizes a village, “where my father lost our red Shorthorn in a game of forty-five,” we suspect that money is short and her father unreliable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Hill also has Herefords, an English breed known for its fertility, as well as Beefmasters, a composite breed of Herefords, Brahmans and Shorthorn cattle that are more tolerant of drought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
The joint’s pièce de résistance is Wagyu beef – Japanese Black, Japanese Polled, Japanese Brown and Japanese Shorthorn – the finest of fine steaks real money can buy.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2015
Tarrango found a Shorthorn player in her face for most of the game, prohibiting her from doing much more than passing to others.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2015
As regards colour, red is characteristic of the Lincolnshire Shorthorn, the Hereford, Devon, Sussex and Red Polled.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
With common meats like the Durham shorthorn cattle coming in and out of the San Francisco company, the head of the business had an urge to move toward a more niche meat market.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2016
Runner-up was a shorthorn called Illini Major, raised on the College Farms of the University of Illinois.
From Time Magazine Archive
Near Delaware, Ohio, after Bossie, a 1,100-lb. shorthorn, fell into a 7-ft. well, the volunteer fire department used their heads and hoses, poured water into the well, floated Bossie to solid ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Capper wrested her title from an English shorthorn named Cherry.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shorthorn bulls of Hereford bore little resemblance to the longhorns of Craven.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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