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shorts
noun- a condition of low or no funds US, 1932
- The first serious signs of the shorts came late in October when I started to get my salary piecemeal. — Gary Mayer, Bookie, p. 198, 1974
- I was still hanging around New York, suffering a bad case of the shorts[.] — Jimmy Snyder, Jimmy the Greek, p. 183, 1975
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming, p. 198, 1987
- the last portion of a cigarette US
- To save someone shorts on a cigarette is to save him a couple of draws at the end. — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 65, 1992
- in poker, a pair that is beaten by a larger pair US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 81, 1988
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