shorts

/ ʃɔːts /

plural noun

1. trousers reaching the top of the thigh or partway to the knee, worn by both sexes for sport, relaxing in summer, etc

2. Usual Brit word: pants. men's underpants that usually reach mid-thigh

3. short-dated gilt-edged securities

4. short-term bonds

5. securities or commodities that have been sold short

6. timber cut shorter than standard lengths

7. a livestock feed containing a large proportion of bran and wheat germ

8. items needed to make up a deficiency

Example Sentences

They set him up by giving him dissolvable swimming shorts to wear in the pool.

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“It was about fast cars and girls in short shorts,” said Stacey Snider, who ran Universal at the time.

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Stocks with rising momentum run over shorts like freight trains, no matter what an activist’s report says.

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My husband slipped out of his shorts and I was just shimmying out of mine when we heard voices.

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The Simpsons first appeared in 1987 as cartoon shorts before getting their own TV show two years later.

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Related Words

• bikini 
• bra 
• corset 
• lingerie 
• undergarment 
• underpants 
• undershirt