Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
short . - noun Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the
knees . - noun Underwear bottoms.
- noun uncountable Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun trousers that end at or above the knee
- noun underpants worn by men
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Examples
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Many Mexicans, men and women, wear shorts now and more will as more do, and gringos in shorts is a good thing, he says, to loosen up the rigid ones even more.
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What a man in shorts is wearing on his feet leaves a bigger impression than anything else.
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So here's how the "year in shorts" is going for me so far.
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(according to Cinéma Vérité, I think the young girl in shorts is Sara!)
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I have learned that the English word 'shorts' translates roughly into Czech as 'wasted luggage space.'
suit-of-meat Diary Entry suit-of-meat 2006
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The Lake Chapala shore has become a tourist destination for tapatios (people from Guadalajara) and so we see a lot of Mexicans in shorts - men and women, here at the lake.
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"Sleaze-week" basically pulls a lowbrow, sleazy photshop type mauever, using a photo from a running magazine to "TRY" and show this woman in shorts to make her look bad ... are the the National Enquirer now?
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"Sleaze-week" basically pulls a lowbrow, sleazy photshop type mauever, using a photo from a running magazine to "TRY" and show this woman in shorts to make her look bad ... are the the National Enquirer now?
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The Global Cup? something to do with men in shorts being tooted at by people with loud horns -- then Juha's birthday party, where I got to meet some of his mates, who were all lovely.
Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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(On the other hand, when the Productos de Limpeza truck came by yesterday, I went out to the street dressed in shorts and fuzzy slippers, and no one even cracked a smile or a joke.)
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