Short was used long before there were compact cars. It goes back to at least the Forties on the Southside of Chicago. It means ANY car. It was from the vernacular of hotrodders and black gangsters. It probably derives from "hot short", which evolved to "hotwire" ... a car.
Get your short and let's go for a ride.
by Searle Rosen July 24, 2006

siraj, year sevens and migdets are all short
by intro maniac October 06, 2005

by deadcat June 10, 2003

by Anonymous October 31, 2003

Yo, lemme get a short.
by youngbull July 01, 2005

by jake smith May 25, 2004
