short-sheet

verb

To play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short.

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Meanings

verbshort-sheet (third-person singular simple present short-sheets, present participle short-sheeting, simple past and past participle short-sheeted)

present singular third person short-sheets · participle present short-sheeting · participle past short-sheeted · past short-sheeted · alternative short sheet

  1. idiomaticTo play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short.

    Another recreation that appealed to us boys was ‘short-sheeting’ the elderly patients’ beds.

    1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 11
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “short-sheet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/short-sheet.

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