Shorthand

A style of typing that noobs need to stop doing because it's driving people mad with their insensitivity of using poor spelling. It's useful in school and college to get notes down faster, but a major cause for murder when used to talk to people on the internet. The people that usually use shorthand on the internet like AIM, MSN or whatever are usually people that don't know how to fucking spell or write clear sentences. It's rare if these people DO know how to spell. Also, it's fucking annoying having to squint at the computer screen trying to make sense of something that looks scrunched together or looks like it came from another planet. The English language is the 2nd most used language in the word. Please, noobs, try not to fuck it up with your annoying use of shorthand. It's driving the world insane.

Noob: yo, waddap dawg. hw u do n?
Human: I'm doing fine.
Noob: wna hnq out sumtym? lyk @ da moves?
Human: Ugh, I'm sorry can you please type regular? I can't understand.
Noob: i em typin rglar. izz sumtn rong?
Human: Oh, my fucking God... Your shorthand is killing my eyesight.
Noob: nah, chll homee. i got disz undah cntrl.
Human: What the fuck are you saying like seriously? You are giving me a fucking headache. I think I'm going to have a brain hemorrhage because of you.
Noob: wuts dat? bryn hamrge?
Human: Oh, my God.. That's it I'm out.

Human has left the conversation.

Noob: yo dawg? u der?
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by allergictobullshit May 2, 2010

short king spring

The term, which refers to men who are under 5'9”, has taken off after users pointed out a number of celebrity pairings where the man is shorter than the woman.

Tom Holland out here celebrating short king spring with Zendaya .

by Irene A. April 11, 2022

short list

Top few people or things that are at the top of the list, instead of the million other entries.

Liz Hurley and J-lo along with vida are on my short list of the hottest women alive. The long list is five thousand more.

by JONBIG February 28, 2007

shortcut

1. A more direct route than the customary one.
2. A means of saving time or effort.

Person #1: If you take the next right, it'll save you like ten minutes. It's a pretty handy shortcut.
Person #2: Sweet dude, thanks.

by illEATurHARTout December 11, 2004

shortcomings

a deficiency, a flaw, an imperfection, fault, often concealed that impairs soundness.

Thank you for everything despite of my shortcomings you are still there to support me.

They share that character flaw of arrogance.

by Sharreyn August 14, 2006

short shorts

very, very short shorts

ew, he's wearing short shorts.

damn, she's wearing short shorts

by the breshkleeg master thing February 4, 2009

short position

(FINANCE) a situation in which an investor owns financial instruments (shares, bonds, financial derivatives, etc.) that will make the most money IF some other thing declines in value.

Therefore, one always has to take a short position on something in particular. A short position on gold means the investor expects gold to decline in value in the near future, and has bought various things to make money if it does.

Some ways to take a short position on X include:

(1) buying a put option on X

(2) writing a call option on X

(3) borrowing X and selling it (shorting a stock)

#3 is the classical way to take a short position. It was dangerous because a skillful trader could squeeze the shorts using a corner.

BILL: I guess you took a bath when the stock market tanked, huh?

ANA: Nope. I took a short position on all of the nine largest banks. Did rather well, thank you very much.

BIL: Sweet!

by Abu Yahya April 5, 2010