# shorts
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts

### Noun

shorts
* plural of short

### Noun

shorts pl (plural only)
* 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.
* (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."
* (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
* 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
* Short, inferior hemp.

#### Derived terms

* basketball shorts
* Bermuda shorts
* bib shorts
* bicycle shorts
* bicycling shorts
* biking shorts
* boardshorts
* board shorts
* 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

#### See also

* short pants
* undershorts

### Verb

shorts
* third-person singular simple present indicative of short

### Anagrams

* Horsts, Stohrs, horsts

## French
### Noun

shorts m
* 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)
* 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)
* shorts (as above)

#### Synonyms

* kortbukse

### References

* “shorts” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.

### Pronunciation

* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃɔɾ.tɨʃ/

### Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)
* Alternative form of short

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃoɾds/ [ˈʃoɾð̞s]
* Rhymes: -oɾds

### Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)
* shorts
* plural of short

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English shorts.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɧoːʈʂ/, (rare) /ʃoːʈʂ/

### Noun

shorts pl
* shorts (garment)
    ett par shortsa pair of shorts

#### Usage notes

Of athletic or casual shorts. Compare kortbyxor.

#### 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)