Legitimate shortcut

Within the rules cutting through bull**** and red tape to get directly to the issue.

The professor took a legitimate shortcut to ensure the sanity of his students and colleagues.

by Dr. Gallesa March 31, 2020

shortcut clause

Invoking the shortcut clause indicates you never wish to discuss a specifically distasteful topic again. It's entymology can be found in a "Simpsons" episode (www.tv.com/the-simpsons/itchy-and-scratchy-land/episode/1392/trivia.html) wherein the family takes a shortcut and a smash-cut brings us back to them, in disarray, with Homer intoning ominously, "Let us never speak of the shortcut again".

You would not use the shortcut clause to avoid talking about something good, only something too horrible or traumatic to want to relive in any manner.

She: How was your date with my sister?

He: I claim the shortcut clause.

by Keep The Reason March 4, 2009

one step shortcut to the lobby

To commit suicide off of an office or hotel building. Used in Iron Man 3.

Aldrich: “Well in the first hour, I considered taking that one step shortcut to the lobby..if you know what I mean.”

by IronManFan May 4, 2019

Shortcut to prevent ringing

What does shortcut to prevent ringing mean

When shortcut to prevent ringing is it suppose to be on or off

by What does shortcut to prevent December 11, 2022

Take the Shortcut

To walk in circles around your highschool to avoid going to class.

Cora: Oh shit, I've got Mrs. Crandall's class next and she's a total bitch.
Oliver: Let's take the shortcut.

by SquidyKitty June 18, 2015

Polish shortcut

to take a longer route that is not scenic

Rachel and I are taking the Polish shortcut to the park

by anonymous384293 April 13, 2025

fourth-base shortcut

Refers to the act of bypassing second and third base, but instead proceeding directly from first to fourth base; i.e., having sex with a girl right away, without bothering to tediously wade through the whole hugging/kissing/touchy-feely foreplay-crap in between.

The simplest and most effective/successful fourth-base shortcut procedure, in two easy steps:
(1) Find a hot chick and offer her a free foot-massage (first base).
(2) When the cutie obligingly plops herself down and gives you her feet, take one foot in each hand and start rubbing them, but also gradually raise them up high till her legs are back over her head and her butt is lifted off the ground, allowing you to slip off whatever lower garment(s) she's wearing. If she'd made no objections by that time, then the rest is easy; just kick off your own lower garments and enjoy (fourth base).

by QuacksO October 8, 2017