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jorts

jorts noun: jean shorts, a pair of shorts made from denim (especially, mid-thigh or knee-length).

jorts: jean shorts, a pair of shorts made from denim (especially, mid-thigh or knee-length)
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Noun

jorts pl (normally plural, singular jort)

  1. (countable, plural, plural-normally, uncountable) jean shorts, a pair of shorts made from denim (especially, mid-thigh or knee-length)
    • Jorts are confusing. Do you want to wear jeans or shorts? Our guess is that what you're really saying is that you'd like to wear a longish, slouchy pair of shorts and not look too buttoned-up.2010 March 16, Ellen Rakieten with Anne Coyle, Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won't Be Dating or Having Sex, New York: Villard Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 13
    • Although some feel that jorts include any manner of denim short regardless of length, others describe jorts as strictly of the knee-length, baggy variety.2011 November 18, Anna Lefle, The Chicktionary: From A-line to Z-snap, the words every woman should know, Avon: Adams Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 106

jorts meaning in Tamil and Bengali

jorts in Tamil

உரப்புக் காற்சட்டை

jorts in Bengali

জেমস শর্টস, জর্টস

Examples of jorts in a sentence

  • Your dad wore jorts before you did and he's got the short frayed denim to prove it.2012 March 28, Brad Getty, Dads Are the Original Hipsters, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 11:
  • They wore jorts and crop tops; or strappy, S&M-influenced getups; or pajamas emblazoned with cartoons.2025 May 5, Spencer Kornhaber, “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

Forms of jorts

singularjort
alternative formjhorts

Origin of jorts

Blend of jeans + shorts.

Questions about jorts

What does jorts mean?
Jorts means jean shorts, a pair of shorts made from denim (especially, mid-thigh or knee-length).
What is jorts in Tamil?
Jorts in Tamil is உரப்புக் காற்சட்டை. See Jorts meaning in Tamil.
How do you use jorts in a sentence?
Your dad wore jorts before you did and he's got the short frayed denim to prove it.
What part of speech is jorts?
Jorts is a noun.

Words near jorts in the dictionary

  1. Jorstad
  2. Jorstads
  3. jort
  4. Jortner
  5. Jortners
  6. jorts
  7. jorum
  8. jorums
  9. Jory
  10. Jorăști
  11. Jorō spider

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jorts (page history and authors); jorts (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jorts (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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