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short-beaked |
short-billed |
short-billed marsh wren |
short-bodied |
short-breathed |
short-change
| short-circuit
| short-dated
| short-eared
| short-grass
| short-haired
short-change
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb short-change has 2 senses
- short-change(v = verb.social) short - cheat someone by not returning him enough money; Array is one way to bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize
- short-change(v = verb.social) bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, victimize - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" is one way to cheat, chisel, rip off
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
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