Shorts

Pronunciation

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

Full definition of shorts

Noun

1. Plural of short
2. Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts.
3. Underwear bottoms.After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts.
4. (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
5. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
• HalliwellThe first remove above bran is shorts.
6. Short, inferior hemp.

Derived terms

• boardshorts
• booty shorts
• boxer shorts
• swimshorts
• sleep shorts

Anagrams

• horsts