- (British English) a small strong alcoholic drink, for example of whiskyTopics Drinksc2
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- a short film, especially one that is shown before the main filmTopics Film and theatrec2
- (informal) a short circuit (= a failure in an electrical circuit, when electricity travels along the wrong route because of damaged wires or a fault in the connections between the wires)
Word OriginOld English sceort, of Germanic origin; related to shirt and skirt.
Idioms
See short in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee short in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishin short
- in a few words
- His novels belong to a great but vanished age. They are, in short, old-fashioned.
the long and (the) short of it
- used when you are telling somebody the essential facts about something or what effect it will have, without explaining all the details
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