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short-shorts

short-shorts is the alternative form of short shorts.

Meaning of short shorts

Noun

short shorts pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Trousers that are very short, covering the pelvis but exposing most of the legs; hot pants.
    • She is telling them about Jaeger man-tailored shorts, kilted shorts and short shorts, and about the shirt-maker tennis dresses. She is telling them about the golf suits with divided skirts and ‘crazy shirts’1935 April 9, “Jaeger House [advertisement]”, in The Times, page 14

Questions about short-shorts

What is short-shorts the alternative form of?
Short-shorts is the alternative form of short shorts.

Words near short-shorts in the dictionary

  1. short-sheeting
  2. short-sheets
  3. short-ship
  4. short-short stories
  5. short-short story
  6. short-shorts
  7. short-sighted
  8. short-sightedly
  9. short-sightedness
  10. short-sleeper
  11. short-sleepers

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