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short
noun- a car, especially a restored older car or hot rod US, 1914
- — Babs Gonzales, Be-Bop Dictionary and History of its Famous Stars, p. 9, 1949
- “You got your short here?” The Wolf asked. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 108, 1958
- And I don’t think I wanna ride in your short anyway. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 36, 1960
- It happened on the strip where the road is wide / Two cool shorts standin’ side by side. — The Beach Boys, Shutdown, 1963
- Joe, you have a short, some fronts, and a fine ticker too. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 91, 1964
- [B]ecause three blocks away, a short walk for a sick junkie, are respectable neighborhoods good for burglary and “cracking shorts” (breaking into cars). — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 19, 1966
- You’re hot! You ain’t got no business sitting dirty in my “short.” There’s a law, Sucker, that can confiscate a “short” with stuff in it. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 64, 1969
- It’s, like, Santa Claus used ta have this really sharp short, man, y’know? — Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, Santa Calus and his Old Lady, 1971
- Carlito, they got Mr. Etienne in the back of a short in front of Carl’s. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 29, 1975
- “This your new short?” Rodney nodded to the Mustang. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 254, 1992
- The Bone declines the short. “I ain’t lookin’ to catch nothin’ but parole.” — Jimmy Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming, p. 175, 2002
- a drink of spirits (as opposed to wine, beer, etc.), or a spirit and a mixer UK, 1837
Used of drinks taken in short measures, although the original use is also of undiluted alcohol. - [T]hey were drinking shorts and, of course, they were surrounded by fawning, gorgeous young women. — The Guardian, 16 September 2002
- the unsmoked butt of a cigarette UK
- “Save me shorts, Homes.” Joe passed over his Camel stub as they fell in walkin’ and talkin’. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 89, 1990
- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 63, 2002
- a brief nap US
- — Elementary Electronics, Dictionary of CB Lingo, p. 105, 1976
- in lobstering, a lobster that is not legal size US
- — Kendall Merriam, The Illustrated Dictionary of Lobstering, p. 79, 1978
- a railway carriage left between stations US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 137, 1977
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