shorty
Americannoun
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shorties
plural
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a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
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a garment designed to be of short length, as a hospital bed jacket.
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Slang. Also shawty
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a girl or woman.
We watched the shorties on the dance floor, all lookin' so fine.
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a girlfriend or sweetheart.
Me and my shorty went to that new club over on Ninth last night; what a scene!
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adjective
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The red dot disappeared from the map, only for another to pop up shorty after.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
And then when you get a shorty you may say, “Yo, babe, I look nice. I’m good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Scotland got on the board with a penalty from player of the match Helen Nelson and looked to have taken the lead shorty after from a five metre lineout.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025
Huff didn’t feel comfortable there and shorty after training camp opened in 1956, he got fed up and left.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021
LeAlan: Why you trying to serve if you only a shorty?
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
“We didn’t expect to get two shorties, but when you force people and they turn the puck over like they did tonight we’re going to get chances,” Kesler said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
She body-boards 3-footers in shorties breaking over a sandbar off the southern Massachusetts coast.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2012
With the U.K. games looming we shorties are scanning the horizon for future sporty munchkin role models.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2012
Was the distribution of shot times entirely random, or were there any local or global patterns to descry: longies with longies, middies alternating with shorties, etc.?
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2010
LeAlan: You think they got a playground in heaven for those shorties?
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
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