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Shorts

noun

Trousers that end at or above the knee. Synonyms: short pants, trunks.

Underpants worn by men. Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers.

Short

noun

The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed.

Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference. Synonym: short circuit.

The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base. Synonym: shortstop.

verb

Cheat someone by not returning him enough money. Synonym: short-change.

Create a short circuit in. Synonym: short-circuit.

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"Shorts" Quotes from Famous Books

... and stepped back to give place to the valets who came in with the count's costume. One bore a rich habit embroidered with gold, and the other a pair of velvet-shorts, red stockings, ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... which were not possible to the automatic controls. At his own panel of instruments, a small man with grizzled black hair around a bald crown, and a grizzled beard, chewed nervously at the stump of a dead cigar and listened intently. A large, plump-faced, young man in soiled khaki shirt and shorts, with extremely hairy legs, was doodling on his notepad and eating candy out of a bag. And a black-haired girl in a suit of coveralls three sizes too big for her, and, apparently, not much of anything else, lounged ...

— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper

... sun. There was no hurry—nine days to do just as they liked in—so halfway along the sea-wall the Cubs and Akela scrambled down some steep stone steps on to a tiny stretch of sand not yet covered by the incoming tide. Boots and stockings were soon off, sleeves and shorts tucked up, and everybody paddling deep in the cool ...

— Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light • Vera C. Barclay

... astonishment of Squeers and his victim, as the savage goes down under the thundering blows of Nickleby's cane. Look at the old imbecile declaring his passion for the foolish Mrs. Nickleby. Behold his knee-breeches and shorts protruding from the chimney, when his benighted intellect prompted him, at the imminent hazard of strangulation, to pay a visit to the object of his affections via that unusually circuitous route. Look at the fatal brawl between Sir Mulberry Hawk and his hopeful ...

— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt

... stepped out into the passageway, blinking for a moment in the unaccustomed light and trying to shake away the remnants of his dream. Officers were boiling up the passageway and up the ladder, some eager ensigns dressed only in their shorts and their life jackets. It was more wise than funny, he thought slowly. Ships had gone down in a matter of seconds and anybody who spent precious moments looking for his pants or his wallet never ...

— Decision • Frank M. Robinson