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

shortfully

A combination of "shortly" and "hopefully".

Winning the lottery is something that we expect shortfully.

by ogicannabis July 24, 2019

shortcutism

taking something from other people and not giving them credit, specially knowledge

Abir: What is this 'shortcutism'?
Adnan: I take credit from you and claim the word as my own....a fitting example of shortcutism.

by abirpahlwan January 27, 2022

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

shortcut recruiting

The practice of using AI agents or automated pipelines to skim the same publicly available layoff trackers and LinkedIn data that every other recruiter is already scraping, repackage it as a "curated shortlist," and call it "innovation". This in contrast to actually hitting the pavement to find, meet, and evaluate real talent, the recruiter sets up a bot to surface the same recycled pool of recently laid-off engineers that 500 other recruiters are already cold-messaging simultaneously.

The whole industry is moving toward shortcut recruiting and then complaining there's no good talent. Bro, you automated yourself into mediocrity.

by highskyflier87 March 11, 2026

Shortfully

(adv.) – in a short amount of time; soon; shortly.

I will give you a call back shortfully.

by masllab August 31, 2025

phonetic shortcut

Da "lazy man's way" of pronouncing two or more words in a common phrase --- the individual words get corruptedly/messily "run together", rather than being spoken clearly and "separately", the way a "proper" person would say them.

Classic examples of a phonetic shortcut would be "wanna" (want to), "ustuh" (used to), "shouldah" (should have), and "didja" (did you). Disgusting how da young people talk these days!

by QuacksO November 10, 2018