Shortcuts

Word SHORTCUTS
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈʃɔːtkʌts/

Definitions and meanings of "Shortcuts"

What do we mean by shortcuts?

A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.

A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps.

(in the Microsoft family of operating systems) A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.

A keyboard shortcut: a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation.

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

The longest distance between two points. Urban Dictionary

When your watching tv and it goes from one show to the next Urban Dictionary

A shortcut that in the end proves almost no purpose. It is either so ridiculous that no one would ever use it, or it only saves a person one minute in a three hour car drive. Urban Dictionary

Jersey Shortcut – Second man in; or to “swoop” in on a situation where your buddy has already engaged in conversation with one or more women. It is not necessarily one’s intention to distract the girl your buddy is talking to, or to “CB” him, but to engage her friend in conversation as the “ice” has already been broken by your buddy. If, in fact, the girl your buddy is talking to seems more interested in you than him, it is acceptable at this point to make a move and potentially steal the girl away. Urban Dictionary

Not wiping after defacating. Urban Dictionary

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. Urban Dictionary

Noun A visual used to describe an alternate route when cutting a corner in the midst of travel (usually on foot) as said traveler walks along the "hypotenuse" of a 90 degree angle turn. Urban Dictionary

In math, when stuck on a problem, especially a proof in geometry (which are useless and a waste of time) the answer will always = Joel's Shortcut, the universal answer too all. Urban Dictionary

A Tijuana shortcut is when a person or persons try to get extremely drunk very quickly by taking many shots of tequila in a short amount of time but instead of getting drunk, skip straight to being completely wasted and passing out. Urban Dictionary

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The word "shortcuts" in example sentences

Most Lifehacker readers probably know how to customise the Send To menu — just type in shell: sendto into the address bar, and add or delete shortcuts from the list. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For me, the point of keyboard shortcuts is not moving out to the mouse at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, the saving grace for Mac keyboard shortcuts is that you can set up a shortcut in the keyboard preferences pane for just about any menu command, including sub menus and drop down lists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unless I have missed something, the only way to discover the shortcuts is to hover the mouse over editor buttons, which defeats the whole purpose of keyboard shortcuts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You can change a few of your keyboard shortcuts from the standard System-Preferences menu offering, but opening up the GNOME configuration editor, as gHacks details, lets you create universal shortcuts for applications, scripts or other items to run from anywhere you hit the keys: ❋ Unknown (2010)

The abbreviations are often not intuitive (alt-H for Message, anyone?), and this afterthought approach to keyboard shortcuts is perhaps my biggest single objection to the entire Ribbon approach. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Below are the Yublin shortcuts for the 100 most common words. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2007)

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that we've changed the tag shortcuts that we feature in the navigation bar; underneath the logo at the top of the site. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Second, it's what comes with (or fails to be included with) her "shortcuts" - even if I have a very heavy hand on the saltshaker, home-cooked food is lower in sodium than processed foods. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2008)

Over at MakeUseOf, the software and technology-centred blog, they’ve put together a guide to being more productive with Firefox tabs, among the great add-ons they suggest like previously covered New Tab King and Tab Navigator, they also highlight some great built-in shortcuts — seen in the chart above. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Back in 1998, then greatly expanded in 1999, Excite was doing what both Yahoo and Ask Jeeves have rolled out years later, using trigger word shortcuts and showing “answers” within its matches. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among them, keyword shortcuts (Hit "n" for new tweet) and larger avatar photos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All of the menus read themselves off when you mouse over them, and they have keyboard shortcuts, which is useful if you have reduced vision. ❋ Roger Hibbert (2009)

Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts Greg Notess in Online Magazine May / June 2004 Several search engines offer one-word shortcuts or commands for retrieving certain bits of information - weather, definitions, calculations, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The extension is fully customisable, so you can define keyword shortcuts for just about any search you can think of. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Camera docks and memory-card readers built into PCs have attempted to alleviate these transferring problems, but these so-called shortcuts still require a certain amount of dedication to the process. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The mistake would be if you started using text messaging/IM slang shortcuts when you talk. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It's a command line tool that lets you assign keyword shortcuts to URLs. ❋ Rogers (2005)

· Several html tag shortcuts are available as well as several wizards e.g. Table editor, list editor, frame editor ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ IllEATurHARTout (2004)

A [journey] of [a thousand] miles starts with one "I know the [shortcut]!". ❋ Sleep`walker (2011)

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] ❋ Aaron Plowman (2017)

Dude, why did you just [take that] [drew shortcut]? It didn't [save] as any time. ❋ Xanthrun (2006)

Example: Rob – Yo, check out those 2 [broads] over there… yea, the blonde has been staring me down since we walked in. Derek – Yea? …well then [make moves] son! Rob – I got this. Rob – Hey, what’s up.. you guys know of any good bars or clubs around here? Blonde – (Insert engaging reply here) Derek – ([Swooping] in from the side to talk to her brunette friend, instantly begins kicking solid game…) Rob – Damn.. there goes that Jersey Shortcut again! ❋ Mr. NJ (2010)

I was late for work and out of [toilet paper]. I had [no time] to grab a new roll so I took an [Alabama Shortcut]. ❋ Bobafet75 (2014)

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]" ❋ PDizzleThe3rd (2011)

Eric: How do we get to [McConnell's] Ice Cream Shop? Peter: Its 3 blocks down [Islay] St., turn right and walk 2 blocks down De La Vina St. Eric: Why don't we just take a [hypotenuse shortcut] through the back alleys to save time? Peter: What the fuck is a hypotenuse shortcut? ❋ Figa Hunter (2013)

If a = [b & b] = c & the [sum] of the earth is 1, then what does [FISH] = ? FISH = Joel's Shortcut of course ❋ Sparky Winsor (2005)

Bro, [Friday night] I tried to [catch up] to you guys drinking but ended up taking a [Tijuana shortcut]. It sucked. ❋ Travasaurus (2013)

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