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  • noun Plural form of shortboard.

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Examples

  • Small boards—less than about 7 feet in length, with pointed noses—are called shortboards.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Small boards—less than about 7 feet in length, with pointed noses—are called shortboards.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Small boards—less than about 7 feet in length, with pointed noses—are called shortboards.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Assorted young hotheads on shortboards, who should really have been over at Huntington Pier and not terrorizing me.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • We watched a pair of lanky teen boys head for the water with shortboards tucked under their arms.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • As I left the van, a small pickup skidded to a stop at the end of the sand street, and ten shirtless teens with boogie boards and shortboards jumped out.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • They included two shortboards and a 7–6 single-fin, old-style gun.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • Special thanks to my friend Kali for her surfer girl expertise, since I know absolutely nothing about mini mals and shortboards and... sunlight... etc etc

    Warning! May Cause Tropical Contact High spacesick 2008

  • Special thanks to my friend Kali for her surfer girl expertise, since I know absolutely nothing about mini mals and shortboards and... sunlight... etc etc

    Archive 2008-07-01 spacesick 2008

  • With only shortboards for rent, and some pretty huge surf, I opted out of my first surfing lesson and was happy battling the waves on foot.

    Sea to Summit « Wanderings 2006

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