shorts

English

Running shorts.

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/, X-SAMPA: /sO:(r)ts/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts

Noun

shorts (plural only)

1. Plural form of short
2. Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.

   Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts.

3. Underwear bottoms.

   After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts.

4. (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.

Derived terms

• boardshorts
• swimshorts

Translations

plural of short — see short

pants worn primarily in the summer that does not go lower than the knees

• Bulgarian: шорти (bg) (šórti) pl , гащета (bg) (gaštéta) pl 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短褲 (cmn), 短裤 (cmn) (duǎnkù)

• Estonian: šortsid (et)
• Finnish: sortsit (fi), šortsit (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Shorts (de) pl
• Greek: σορτς (el) (sorts) n , σορτσάκι (el) (sortsaki) n , παντελονάκι (el) (pantelonaki) n 
• Hungarian: rövidnadrág (hu), sort (hu)

• Irish: bríste sciota (ga) m, brístín (ga) m
• Japanese: ショートパンツ (ja) (shōtopantsu)
• Korean: 반바지 (ko)
• Macedonian: куси панталони (mk) (kúsi pantáloni) f pl, шорц (mk) (šorc) m
• Maltese: xorzz (mt) m
• Manx: troosyn giarey (gv) m pl
• Polish: szorty (pl) pl
• Russian: шорты (ru) (šórty) pl 
• Serbo-Croatian: šorc (sh) m
• Turkish: şort (tr)

Anagrams

• horsts

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French

Noun

shorts

1. Plural form of short

   Est-ce qu'il vous reste des shorts comme celui-ci en stock ?

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Norwegian

Noun

shorts m

1. trousers with short legs, no longer than to the knees.

Inflection

    Inflection of shorts

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	shorts	shortsen	shortser	shortsene
Nynorsk m	shorts	shortsen	shortsar	shortsane
Nynorsk m	shorts	shortsen	shorts	shorts

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Swedish

Noun

shorts (plurale tantum)

1. trousers with short legs. Does generally not reach to the knees.

Declension

Declension of shorts

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	-	-	shorts	shortsen
genitive	-	-	shorts	shortsens