Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical, a sucking whale under one year old; when near that age, it is very fat and yields above thirty barrels of blubber.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical, archaic A sucking whale less than one year old.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
Etymologies
- short + head (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He closed in on the leader Sanjuan with every stride and then just pipped him on the post to get the verdict by a shorthead.”
“I’ll admit my naivety up front Internet advertising business models, but aren’t longtail audiences more targeted and therefore monetizeable at higher rates than mainstream shorthead content?”
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