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