Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of short
adjectiveshorted (not comparable)
- not comparableDressed in shorts.
Girls sat in girls' laps; girls sat on the floor, as if at a party; standing girls lined all the walls; athletic girls sat on the hall's Tudor rafters, swinging their shorted legs.
2010, Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy, page 234
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shorted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shorted.
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