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short-sheets

short-sheets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of short-sheet.

Meaning of short-sheet

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To 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

Questions about short-sheets

What is short-sheets the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Short-sheets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of short-sheet.

Words near short-sheets in the dictionary

  1. short-selling
  2. short-sells
  3. short-sheet
  4. short-sheeted
  5. short-sheeting
  6. short-sheets
  7. short-ship
  8. short-short stories
  9. short-short story
  10. short-shorts
  11. short-sighted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-sheets (page history and authors); short-sheet (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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