short down (English, verb)
expansion: short down (third-person singular simple present shorts down, present participle shorting down, simple past and past participle shorted down)
Senses:
glosses: To reduce the price of a stock by selling short.
tags: informal
transitive
glosses: To turn off due to a malfunction.
tags: informal
intransitive
nonstandard
raw_tags: of a computer
glosses: Synonym of shorten up.
Forms:
form: shorts down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shorting down
tags: participle
present
form: shorted down
tags: participle
past
form: shorted down
tags: past