Definitions
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- noun Something or someone that is
shorter than normal - noun ice hockey An
short-handed goal - noun African American Vernacular an adult female or a child.
- adjective
shorter than normal
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Examples
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In addition, competition for career-building prizes and an overemphasis on design have wiped out the brief, a single "shortie" article that could set the town talking for days.
Today's Newspaper: Read It and Weep for the Good Old Days 2008
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It was also Pittsburgh's first "shortie" in a Stanley Cup Final game since Ed Belfour in Game 2 in 1992.
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I don't like the little shortie jacket the dentist wears.
dentistry Susan Tepper 2011
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It was time for me, so I idled into the living room wearing my "Munch Me" shortie night shirt, and my long-nosed barracuda slippers.
Shrine Meg Pokrass 2011
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Clare is great when she is just talking, on Ramblings on Radio 4 or when fronting the BBC's rugby league coverage, but here she was like a woman possessed, stalking round the Liverpool Echo Arena in a strange shortie raincoat, bobbing and weaving like a prize fighter, screaming at us.
Channel Four's Famous and Fearless was utterly pointless | Martin Kelner 2011
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True, our weekend love life might just take a plunge once the shortie comes along anyway, but I couldn't imagine a bigger buzzkill -- no pun intended, seriously -- then having to leave the marital bed so a fat Teamster-ish fella could spray toxic poison from one of those big-assed silver canisters they always seem to have in cartoons.
David Serchuk: New York City Apartment Hell Pt. 3 David Serchuk 2011
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Discrimination against shortie bald men is unacceptable.
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True, our weekend love life might just take a plunge once the shortie comes along anyway, but I couldn't imagine a bigger buzzkill -- no pun intended, seriously -- then having to leave the marital bed so a fat Teamster-ish fella could spray toxic poison from one of those big-assed silver canisters they always seem to have in cartoons.
David Serchuk: New York City Apartment Hell Pt. 3 David Serchuk 2011
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Van der Kloet is a fan of shortie A. schubertii, which she plants among Geranium x riversleaianum 'Mavis Simpson'.
Gardens: Alliums 2010
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He is a shortie, but in the movies they always make him look taller.
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