1. (

• short_pants ,
• shorts ,
• trunks

) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee ;

2. (

• drawers ,
• underdrawers ,
• shorts ,
• boxers ,
• boxershorts

) underpants worn by men ;

1. (

• short-change ,
• short

) cheat someone by not returning him enough money ;

2. (

• short-circuit ,
• short

) create a short circuit in ;

1. (

• short ,

) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months" ;

2. (

• short ,

) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" ;

3. (

• short ,
• little

) low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" ;

4. (

• inadequate ,
• poor ,
• short ,
• jejune

) of insufficient quantity to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"; "the jejune diets of the very poor" ;

5. (

• unretentive ,
• forgetful ,
• short

) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" ;

6. (

• short ,

) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" ;

7. (

• short ,

) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short" ;

8. (

• light ,
• scant ,
• short ,

) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" ;

9. (

• short ,
• shortsighted ,
• unforesightful ,
• myopic

) lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" ;

10. (

• short

) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust" ;

11. (

• brusque ,
• brusk ,
• curt ,
• short

) marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" ;