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comparative form of short: more short. examples
plural shorters
(colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling. examples
(UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins. quotations
My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]
1858, George Borrow, The Romany Rye, volume 2, page 128