Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of short stuff.
‘Listen, shortstuff,’ Amanda said, ‘this is a crisis situation we have here.’
1996, Allan Frewin Jones, Parent Trouble (Little Sister), Red Fox, →ISBN, page 362 more examples
Listen shortstuff, you think you’re the best thing to ever happen to mankind, but anyone else would burst out laughing at the sight of you.
2009, James W. Davis, Image as Idea: The Arts in Global Cultures, 2nd edition, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 125The Kid leant over and whispered in Sam’s ear, ‘Listen, shortstuff, I don’t always get things. I take the wrong end of the stick sometimes.[…]’
2012, Charlie Higson, The Sacrifice, Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 162
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