shorty
Americannoun
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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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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
"You got some moves, shorty, but you run into contact when you should cut?"
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
That is no better than its position shorty before the 2017 local elections, though it is well above the 37% the party secured in the 2017 general election.
From BBC ● May 2, 2022
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
Onstage, Mr. Malone wore bedazzled Cuban heels and a western-cut silk suit to sing his songs of upscale parties and untrue shorties.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
“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
“We try to tell these shorties that they belong to a serious organization,” he once told Venkatesh.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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