shorts

See also: short s

English

Running shorts.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts

Noun

shorts

1. plural of short

Noun

shorts pl (plural only)

1. pants or trousers worn for sports or in warmer weather that do not go lower than the knees.

   Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts.

2. (dated) underpants.

   After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts.

   • 2015, George Carlin, 3 X Carlin: An Orgy of George Including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?:

     And always, when the food arrives, send something back. It's considered very sophisticated. But make sure you use colorful language. Tell him, "Waiter, this veal tastes like the inside front panel of Ferdinand Magellan's shorts. And I'm referring to the first voyage."

3. (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
4. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
   • 1847, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, volume II, →OCLC, page 822:

     […] the first remove above bran is shorts ; the next above that is sharps

5. Short, inferior hemp.

Derived terms

• basketball shorts
• Bermuda shorts
• bib shorts
• biking shorts
• board shorts
• boardshorts
• booty shorts
• boxer shorts
• boy-shorts
• boy shorts
• cargo shorts
• compression shorts
• cover shorts
• cycle shorts
• cycling shorts
• dolphin shorts
• dress shorts
• eat my shorts
• get one's shorts in a knot
• gym shorts
• jockey shorts
• longs and shorts
• pekpek shorts
• playshorts
• poom-poom shorts
• pum-pum shorts
• safety shorts
• short shorts
• shorty shorts
• sleep shorts
• split shorts
• swimming shorts
• swimshorts
• undershorts
• walking shorts
• walk shorts

 

Translations

plural of short — see short

pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees

• Afrikaans: kortbroek
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: شُورْت pl (šūrt)

  Egyptian Arabic: شورت m (šurt)

• Armenian: շորտեր (hy) (šorter)
• Azerbaijani: şort, şortik
• Belarusian: шо́рты f pl (šórty)
• Bengali: শর্টস (śôrṭś)
• Bikol Central: sarwal
• Brunei Malay: seluar pindik
• Bulgarian: шо́рти (bg) pl (šórti), гаще́та pl (gaštéta)
• Burmese: ဘောင်းဘီတို (bhaung:bhitui)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 短褲／短裤 (dyun² fu³)

  Mandarin: 短褲／短裤 (zh) (duǎnkù)

• Czech: šortky f pl
• Danish: shorts (da)
• Dutch: shorts (nl)
• Esperanto: ŝorto
• Estonian: šortsid
• Finnish: shortsit (fi), sortsit (fi)
• French: short (fr) m
• Galician: calzóns m pl (dated)
• Georgian: შორტები (šorṭebi)
• German: Shorts (de) pl, kurze Hose f
• Greek: σορτς (el) n (sorts), σορτσάκι (el) n (sortsáki), παντελονάκι (el) n (pantelonáki)
• Gujarati: ચડ્ડી (gu) f (caḍḍī) (uncommon)
• Hebrew: מִכְנָסַיִים קְצָרִים
• Hindi: शॉर्ट्स (śŏrṭs), हाफ़ पैंट m (hāf paiṇṭ), जाँघिया (hi) m (jāṅghiyā), जांघिया m (jāṅghiyā), चड्डी (hi) f (caḍḍī), कच्छा (hi) m (kacchā), कच्छ (hi) m (kacch)
• Hungarian: rövidnadrág (hu), sort (hu)
• Icelandic: stuttbuxur (is) f pl
• Indonesian: celana pendek (id)
• Irish: bríste sciota m, brístín m
• Italian: calzoncini (it)
• Japanese: ショートパンツ (ja) (shōtopantsu), ショーツ (ja) (shōtsu)
• Kazakh: шорт (şort)
• Khmer: ខោខ្លី (khaoklii)
• Korean: 반바지 (ko) (banbaji), 쇼츠 (syocheu)
• Kyrgyz: шорт (şort)
• Ladin: brea curta f
• Lao: ກາງເກງຂາສັ້ນ (kāng kēng khā san), ສົ້ງຂາສັ້ນ (song khā san)
• Latvian: šorti pl
• Lithuanian: šortai pl
• Macedonian: ку́си панта́лони f pl (kúsi pantáloni), шорц m (šorc)
• Malay: seluar pendek
• Maltese: xorzz m
• Manx: troosyn giarey m pl
• Maori: tarau poto
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kortbukse m or f, shorts m

  Nynorsk: kortbukse f, shorts m

• Persian: شلوارک (šalvârak)
• Polish: szorty (pl) pl
• Portuguese: calção (pt) m, short (pt), calções (pt), bermuda (pt)
• Romanian: pantaloni scurți m pl, șort (ro) n
• Russian: шо́рты (ru) f pl (šórty)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шорц m

  Roman: šorc (sh) m

• Slovak: šortky f pl
• Slovene: kratke hlače (sl) f pl, boksarice f pl
• Spanish: pantalón corto m
• Swahili: kaptula (sw)
• Swedish: shorts (sv), kortbyxor (sv) c pl
• Tagalog: salawal (tl)
• Thai: กางเกงขาสั้น (th) (gaang-geeng-kǎa-sân)
• Turkish: şort (tr)
• Turkmen: şort
• Ukrainian: шо́рти f pl (šórty)
• Uzbek: shorti
• Vietnamese: soóc (vi)
• Welsh: siorts f pl

See also

• short pants
• undershorts

Verb

shorts

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of short

Anagrams

• Horsts, Stohrs, horsts

French

Noun

shorts m

1. plural of short

   Est-ce qu’il vous reste des shorts comme celui-ci en stock ?

   Do you have any shorts like these left in stock?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English shorts.

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortser, definite plural shortsene)

1. shorts (trousers with short legs, no longer than to the knees).

Synonyms

• kortbukse

References

• “shorts” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English shorts.

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortsar, definite plural shortsane)

1. shorts (as above)

Synonyms

• kortbukse

References

• “shorts” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔɾ.tɨʃ/

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of short

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoɾds/ [ˈʃoɾð̞s]
• Rhymes: -oɾds

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

1. shorts
2. plural of short

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shorts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɧoːʈʂ/, (rare) /ʃoːʈʂ/

Noun

shorts pl

1. shorts (garment)

   ett par shorts

   a pair of shorts

Usage notes

Of athletic or casual shorts. Compare kortbyxor.

Declension

Declension of shorts

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	-	-
	definite	-	-
plural	indefinite	shorts	shorts
	definite	shortsen	shortsens

Derived terms

• badshorts (“swim shorts”)
• bermudashorts (“Bermuda shorts”)
• boxershorts (“boxer shorts”)
• fotbollsshorts (“football shorts, soccer shorts”)
• jeansshorts

See also

• kortbyxor

References

• shorts in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• shorts in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• shorts in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)