Shortie

In addition, competition for career-building prizes and an overemphasis on design have wiped out the brief, a single "shortie" article that could set the town talking for days. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was also Pittsburgh's first "shortie" in a Stanley Cup Final game since Ed Belfour in Game 2 in 1992. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't like the little shortie jacket the dentist wears. ❋ Susan Tepper (2011)

It was time for me, so I idled into the living room wearing my "Munch Me" shortie night shirt, and my long-nosed barracuda slippers. ❋ Meg Pokrass (2011)

Clare is great when she is just talking, on Ramblings on Radio 4 or when fronting the BBC's rugby league coverage, but here she was like a woman possessed, stalking round the Liverpool Echo Arena in a strange shortie raincoat, bobbing and weaving like a prize fighter, screaming at us. ❋ Unknown (2011)

True, our weekend love life might just take a plunge once the shortie comes along anyway, but I couldn't imagine a bigger buzzkill -- no pun intended, seriously -- then having to leave the marital bed so a fat Teamster-ish fella could spray toxic poison from one of those big-assed silver canisters they always seem to have in cartoons. ❋ David Serchuk (2011)

Discrimination against shortie bald men is unacceptable. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Van der Kloet is a fan of shortie A. schubertii, which she plants among Geranium x riversleaianum 'Mavis Simpson'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He is a shortie, but in the movies they always make him look taller. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But I do agree with her, those shortie thingies are pretty hot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But Venkatesh evades actually doing anything so that he doesn't have to explain to J.T. why, for example, a sociology grad student can't punish a shortie with two shots to the mouth during the course of his research. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)

That most fun experience whereupon you put on one of those backless shortie night gowns and get poked and prodded and tapped with the little rubber hammer, and then that delightful portion of which I will not speak save to say that KY Jelly is involved ... ❋ Steve Perry (2009)

But what some people may not know is that Jessica Simpson ramped up more than a hamster with ADD on speed to get into amazing shape for her role as Daisy Duke in which she wore shortie shorts of the same name. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I brushed, peed, and I threw on that yellow shortie nightie thingie Beau had bought me for Christmas. ❋ Lisa Gabriele (2008)

Here are some shortie video clips I shot on my Treo (3g2 format, viewable in Quicktime): ❋ Unknown (2006)

The current usage for "Yo-man" is the shortie you send to get the crack from behind the dumpster when the herbs roll up to get some of the product. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Aye herd roomerz taht teh betink wuz 2fyrmenz adn 1sir-Vay-oar in teh shortie -shorts adn teh grate tan to Wun on teh Maus adn teh luberly Petunia…. ❋ Unknown (2008)

IE, is it easier to find such a shortie in the main Oped column and look for one's favored subject there, rather than have to sort through several columns to find a full-length or shortie comment about any given topic? ❋ Unknown (2008)