Skip to main content

taken short 

If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
He was taken short, in the middle of the night on the camping trip.
taken short by Totoro ki November 3, 2020
Urban Dictionary Merch

Take short 

To last for a small duration of time. Antonym of "take long". Logically, if something can "take long", it should also be able to "take short". "For short", "be short", and "last short" are similar.
This homework should take short.
I will only be here for short.
George said he'd be short, but he still isn't here.
Liz Truss's premiership lasted short.
Take short by Hobox March 21, 2023

take a long walk off a short pier 

Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier?

take a long walk off a short pier 

I want you to die, by falling off a pier. Hence if you take a long walk off a short peir, you will fall off the edge.
Take a long walk off a short pier.

take shorts 

To take shorts is to take shortcuts...to try and make it in an industry by appealing to authority figures without first receiving respect among your peers.
We gotta walk not crawl or else take a fall /
What used to be just hopes and thoughts /
are now in effect, and we can't take shorts. (Big Daddy Kane, "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now")
take shorts by dasmb June 11, 2004

Shorts taker 

Someone who “takes shorts” or sleeps with lots of guys. Used by preppy kids in New England and around the northeast.
Yeah dude she’s a shorts taker. She’s slept with Brad and Chad last weekend.” “Yeah she takes shorts”
Shorts taker by lilyd551 December 17, 2020

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.
More from Urban Dictionary

Concrete cowboy 

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.
Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
Word of the Day on September 20, 2026
any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear
hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh
hobo loko by d i z k o 2 0 8 September 14, 2026
Word of the Day on September 19, 2026

God Shot 

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011
Word of the Day on September 18, 2026

city chicken 

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006
Word of the Day on September 17, 2026

Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake
Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026
Word of the Day on September 16, 2026

just fokin missing her

native american reservation origin... to miss an ex so badly that everyone can see it.. can be used for either sex eg. just fokin missing her/him
friend : *noticably sad*
me : look at you all sad & shit
friend : shut up!
me : just fokin missing her huh?
Word of the Day on September 15, 2026
Next