simple past tense and past participle of short-sheet

simple past tense and past participle of short sheet

present participle of short sheet

(syntax) A passive construction that does not have an agent.

(UK politics) An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Commons, to help them with their costs.

(slang, derogatory) Synonym of midget

plural of short-answer

(education, chiefly attributive) A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing.

(idiomatic) To play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short.

Alternative form of short end of the stick