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shorters

shorters is the plural of shorter.

Meaning of shorter

Noun

shorter (plural shorters)

  1. (colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
    • My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]1858, George Borrow, The Romany Rye, volume 2, page 128

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Proper noun capitalized: Shorters

Shorters

  1. (plural) plural of Shorter

Questions about shorters

What is shorters the plural of?
Shorters is the plural of shorter.
What part of speech is shorters?
Shorters is a proper noun.

Words near shorters in the dictionary

  1. shorter-haul
  2. shorter-lived
  3. shorter-run
  4. shorter-term
  5. shorteralls
  6. shorters
  7. Shortess
  8. shortest
  9. shortest haul
  10. shortest remaining time
  11. shortest remaining times

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shorters (page history and authors); Shorters (page history and authors); shorter (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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