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shorty
[shawr-tee]
noun
plural
shortiesa person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
a garment designed to be of short length, as a hospital bed jacket.
Slang.Also shawty
a girl or woman.
We watched the shorties on the dance floor, all lookin' so fine.
a girlfriend or sweetheart.
Me and my shorty went to that new club over on Ninth last night; what a scene!
adjective
noting a garment designed to be of short length.
a shorty nightgown; shorty pajamas.
Example Sentences
You’d agreed to the show, and you came in like your character from “Get Shorty.”
Way before “Get Shorty,” I would just come in and everybody would be looking at their menus, and I would just look at the menu right away and just say a half a dozen things and everybody would look at me like, “You’re ordering everything on the menu!”
And it was “Get Shorty” that really kind of locked in for me.
But there was something so idiosyncratic about the “Get Shorty” character and unpredictable that we’re like, “Oh, if we can tap into that ...” I think it took us a couple seasons to do it, and then it felt like kismet that you sort of came into that meeting like that guy.
Or shorty was going crazy, and she had the fire fit on.
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