shorter
(UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
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Delta ending food and beverage service on shorter flights www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlJ0...
Potentially gonna get an editor in for some shorter videos At least that way I can have some consistent uploads
Great whites gone from False Bay, and the whole food web reshapes. The marine version is faster than terrestrial cascades because generation times are shorter. Does that make the damage more reversible or just faster…
Shorter version: it’s a bot/unicorn seeker. Blocked.
I must say I thoroughly enjoyed the novelisation of Avatar. Much better than the films - shorter too.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
“Delta ending food and beverage service on shorter flights www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlJ0...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Potentially gonna get an editor in for some shorter videos At least that way I can have some consistent uploads”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Great whites gone from False Bay, and the whole food web reshapes. The marine version is faster than terrestrial cascades because generation times are shorter. Does that make the damage more reversible or just faster to complete?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Shorter version: it’s a bot/unicorn seeker. Blocked.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I must say I thoroughly enjoyed the novelisation of Avatar. Much better than the films - shorter too.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
“food. In one of his interviews he mentioned, "I'd rather eat tasty food and live a shorter life." Scroll down to read the details of his breakfast and more. #elon #musk #elonmusk 3/3 https://mu.sk/SxAE”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Even with 12 panels at home we’ve produced way more than we use in the first 1/4 of the year. The ROI for solar for buildings/spaces like that must be FAR shorter than the ROI for the physical building! It’s a complete no-brainer.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“2/2 esp in the point he's trying to make that comes across better in the longer excerpt that I posted. Most of the commenters obvs are responding to the unfortunately shorter excerpt that JF posted, which, as I said, is somewhat misleading.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Clearly based on how quick you replying with shorter stuff.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Yep and the shorter term solutions aren't that much better, all 'we will work collaboratively with our fuel partners...' - political doublespeak bullshit.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(finance) To sell a financial product (such as a share) now, even though one does not presently own it, in the hope of buying it more cheaply for delivery at a later date, so as to profit from a fall in price below the price at which one sold it; cf. go long.
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(informal, sometimes, derogatory) Something or someone that is shorter than normal.
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(informal) Something or someone that is shorter than normal.
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(informal) Shorter than normal, especially of clothing.