Word.ws English Dictionary

short-corner

short-corner is the attributive form of short corner.

Meaning of short corner

Noun

short corner (plural short corners)

  1. A short pass from a corner (the set piece).
    • Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range.2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC
  2. (field hockey) A penalty corner

Questions about short-corner

What is short-corner the attributive form of?
Short-corner is the attributive form of short corner.

Words near short-corner in the dictionary

  1. short-circuits
  2. short-coat
  3. short-coated
  4. short-coating
  5. short-coats
  6. short-corner
  7. short-cut
  8. short-cuts
  9. short-cutting
  10. short-dated
  11. short-distance

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: short-corner (page history and authors); short corner (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “short-corner.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/short-corner. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.