shorts
/ (ʃɔːts) /
trousers reaching the top of the thigh or partway to the knee, worn by both sexes for sport, relaxing in summer, etc
mainly US and Canadian men's underpants that usually reach mid-thigh: Usual Brit word: pants
short-dated gilt-edged securities
short-term bonds
securities or commodities that have been sold short
timber cut shorter than standard lengths
a livestock feed containing a large proportion of bran and wheat germ
items needed to make up a deficiency
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How to use shorts in a sentence
The first public screening of Pathé film shorts took place sometime around 1903.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOur first film was all visual with no sound, and it turned into No More Excuses—which is five shorts in one intercut.
The Renegade: Robert Downey Sr. on His Classic Films, Son’s Battle with Drugs, and Bill Cosby | Marlow Stern | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI stripped down to my gym shorts and stretched out on my cot.
A photo of the most recent professional tournament showed a fully male, predominantly white, t-shirt and cargo-shorts-clad top 8.
Is ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Immune to GamerGate Misogyny? | David Levesley | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe wears a black Under Armour T-shirt, red basketball shorts, sneakers, and white socks hiked up to his calves.
The Ugly Truth About Cory Booker, New Jersey’s Golden Boy | Olivia Nuzzi | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
She had torn open bags of beans, shorts, bran, chop-feed and cotton-seed meal.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurHe stood up straight and lean-muscled, in a pair of duck shorts.
The Devil's Asteroid | Manly Wade WellmanThe greater part of the year in Mesopotamia the regulation army dress consisted of a tunic and "shorts."
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit RooseveltThe greater the number of the too longs or the too shorts the greater his complacence in the contemplation of his labours.
Blue Goose | Frank Lewis NasonI charge each hog $1 for bran and shorts; this is all the ready money I pay out for him.
The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter
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