shorts

Etymology

noun

1. plural of short

noun

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.
3. (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
4. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
   […]the first remove above bran is shorts ; the next above that is sharps 1847, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, volume II, →OCLC, page 822
5. Short, inferior hemp.

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of short