shorts

See also: short s

English

Running shorts.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts

Noun

shorts

  1. plural of short

Noun

shorts pl (plural only)

  1. pants or trousers worn for sports or in warmer weather that do not go lower than the knees.
    Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts.
  2. (dated) underpants.
    After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts.
  3. (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
  4. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
    • 1847, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, volume II, OCLC 873042931, page 822:
      [] the first remove above bran is shorts ; the next above that is sharps
  5. Short, inferior hemp.

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Translations

Verb

shorts

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of short

Anagrams


French

Noun

shorts m

  1. plural of short
    Est-ce qu'il vous reste des shorts comme celui-ci en stock ?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English shorts.

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortser, definite plural shortsene)

  1. shorts (trousers with short legs, no longer than to the knees).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English shorts.

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortsar, definite plural shortsane)

  1. shorts (as above)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.

Pronunciation

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative form of short

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃoɾds/ [ˈʃoɾð̞s]
  • Rhymes: -oɾds

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

  1. shorts
  2. plural of short

Swedish

Etymology

From English shorts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɧoːʈʂ/, (rare) /ʃoːʈʂ/

Noun

shorts pl

  1. trousers with short legs. Does generally not reach to the knees.

Declension

Declension of shorts 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative - - shorts shortsen
Genitive - - shorts shortsens
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