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The longest distance between two points.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with one "I know the shortcut!".
Shortcut by sleep`walker May 30, 2011
when your watching tv and it goes from one show to the next
man i was watching tv last night and it went to commercial and it was a different show it was like a shortcut or some other shit
shortcut by aaron plowman January 17, 2017

Shortcut Shame 

The act of taking an apparent shortcut only to find the person or people you were trying to get ahead of speed past as you wait knowing you have suffered from some serious shortcut shame.

Invented in Pompey in 2011.
Johnny took the shortcut to avoid the traffic lights except he came to the junction to be stopped by a parked taxi and he sees all the cars drive on by. Tommy turns to him and says "wasteman that was some serious shortcut shame"
Shortcut Shame by PDizzleThe3rd June 29, 2011

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.

Shortcut to prevent ringing 

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

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.
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Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
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"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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