What is "short-cut"

Usage examples of "short-cut".

A speedy car, cleaving in from a rough street that formed a short-cut to the station, swerved to begin a burst of speed that would enable it to overhaul that cab that Sark had summoned.

For an instant, she was taller than most men, garbed all in black, surprise on her face, and though she still wore the veil, her head was covered with short-cut wavy black hair.

We took the short-cut path along the hillside to the back gate of the Cordova house, and there were no more twinges of memory to trouble me.

Waving good-bye to his companions, he walked straight into the mass of beeches, choosing the direct short-cut that would take him to his destination.

Some of them were impractical, but others were decidedly worth using -- short-cuts, conveniences, clever methods of bridging difficulties that would be worth money in the open market.

Rightly indulged by his editors, who give their star performer all the rope he wants, Vidal saunters at his leisure through the books tendered for review, with many a delightful diversion, racy short-cut, startling turn of speed.

It is easy to see that if Sellers’s life, from the age of five, consisted of similar short-cuts, by the time he was an adult he would lack the basic equipment to become a normal member of society.

But he felt from the beginning that life ‘owed’ him a better start than he had been offered, and the ‘logic of resentment’ drove him to increasingly ambitious attempts at short-cuts to the things he felt he deserved.

In an attempt to right the balance, he takes short-cuts to get what he wants.