Crossword clues for shorty
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"short person," 1888, from short (adj.) + -y (3).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) A short person. 2 (context informal English) (non-gloss definition: A term of endearment for a child, younger sibling, shorter person, etc.) 3 (rfc-sense) (context slang hip-hop English) An attractive young female, especially: a girl who is "down#Adjective", who is counted among close male friends and sometimes loose sexually; '''or''', one's "girl", one's "boo#Noun".
Wikipedia
Shorty is a 2000 film produced by Noontide Filmworks, written, produced and directed by Jon Chang. The story follows Russell, aka "shorty", a modern urban Cyrano afflicted by his lack of height. shorty is played by Andre Canty, with Michele Persley as Venus and Frank Mayers as Eric. "Shorty" has screened at several film festivals in North America, and has received various awards, including the HBO "Short" Film Award at the 2001 Acapulco Black Film Festival, now known as the American Black Film Festival.
Shorty is a nickname, usually for a short person. See Shorty (nickname).
It may also refer to:
Shorty was an American rock band formed in Illinois in 1991. The band consisted of vocalist Al Johnson, guitarist Mark Shippy, drummer Todd Lamparelli, and bassist Luke Frantom. After the group's breakup, Al Johnson and Mark Shippy would go on to form the underground art rock band U.S. Maple.
Shorty, born Dalibor Bartulović, is a Croatian rapper from Vinkovci. He released his debut album in 2004 under the name 1,68 and became famous with his two records "Zeka" and "Dođi u Vinkovce".
"Shorty" is the first release from influential Kansas City, Missouri emo band The Get Up Kids. The single was self-funded, and was a major catalyst for the band's early success, gaining the attention of several record labels including the band's future label Doghouse Records.
"Shorty (You Keep Playin' with My Mind)" is the debut single from R&B group Imajin and features a rap from Keith Murray. It peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 20 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 1998. The song contains a sample of "Dance With Me" by Peter Brown.
Shorty is a feature on Earth's Moon, a likely volcanic crater in the Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. It is the location of the famous "orange soil". It is about in diameter and up to deep.
To the east of Shorty are Victory, Camelot, and the Apollo 17 landing site. To the southeast is Brontë. To the southwest are Lara and Nansen.
The crater was named by the astronauts to honor the genre of the short story, particularly those of Richard Brautigan and J. D. Salinger.
crater AS17-P-2750 ASU.jpg|Apollo 17 panoramic camera image Shorty crater during the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. The orange soil was found to the right of the rover, at the base of the small hill at the crater rim. 17 orange soil.jpg|Orange soil found next to Shorty, which turned out to be titanium-rich pyroclastic glass
Shorty is a nickname which may refer to:
- Joseph Armone (1917–1992), New York City gangster
- Shorty Baker (1914–1966), American jazz trumpeter
- Shorty Barr (1897–1957), American National Football League player and player-coach
- Shorty Cantlon (1904–1947), American race car driver
- Gordon Carpenter (1919–1988), American basketball player
- George V. Chalmers (1907–1984), American college football, basketball and baseball player
- Allen Daniels (born 1959), former Australian rules footballer
- Paul Des Jardien (1893–1956), American football, baseball and basketball player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- Shorty Fuller (1867–1904), American Major League Baseball player
- Shorty Green (1896–1960), Canadian National Hockey League player
- Shorty Hamilton (1879–1925), American silent film actor and comedian
- Shorty Hogue, middleweight boxer in the 1940s
- George Horne (ice hockey) (1904–1929), Canadian National Hockey League player
- Shorty Long (1940–1969), American soul singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
- Frank Longman (1882–1928), American college football player and coach
- Shorty McMillan (1890–1964), American football quarterback for the University of Michigan
- Shorty McWilliams (1926–1997), American football player
- Shorty Medlocke (1910–1982), American delta blues and hard rock musician and composer
- Shorty Miller (1890–1966), American football quarterback for Penn State, member of the College Hall of Fame
- Frank Moniz (1911–2004), American soccer player
- Clyde Propst (died 1959), American college football coach
- Hugh "Shorty" Ray (1884–1956), longtime Supervisor of Officials for the National Football League, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- George Redding (1900–1974), Canadian National Hockey League player
- Shorty Rogers (1924–1994), American musician and arranger, one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz
- Shorty Rollins (1929–1998), American race car driver
- Shorty Rossi (born 1969), American actor and star of the reality TV series Pit Boss
- Shorty Sherock (1915–1980), American swing jazz trumpeter
- Rob Short (born 1972), field hockey player for Canada
- Jimmy Slagle (1873–1956), American Major League Baseball player
- George Williams (basketball), American basketball player in the 1920s
- Irvin Yeaworth (1926–2004), German-born American film director, producer, screenwriter and theme park builder
Usage examples of "shorty".
Horsethief Shorty and that Carl Montana and the state engineer, Nelson Bookman, all sitting around a campfire up by the Little Baldy Bear Lakes, roasting miniature Joe Mondragons skewered like hot dogs on aspen twigs over their campfire.
Horsethief Shorty was a boozing, tall-story upstart with a propensity for never making the same mistake twice.
He had grown up and grown middle-aged with Shorty, but he had never really liked or absolutely trusted the man.
Over the years he had invested in stocks and bonds, and Devine suspected Shorty was currently worth a nice piece of change.
And he harbored a feeling, which had been riding shotgun with bun all his grown-up life, that if Shorty were ever removed, for one reason or another, from the Devine Company, the whole empire would come tumbling down.
Horsethief Shorty chuckled, an obnoxious light twinkling in his dark eyes.
Since then they had been close, and sometimes Flossie talked to Shorty about things that bothered her, or else she just described to him the nebulous thoughts floating like lazy tropical fish through her brain, and she never felt Shorty was mocking her, not even silently in his mind.
Betty Apodaca, and Betty told her she was in the Pilar waiting on tables and overheard Horsethief Shorty Wilson talking to Harlan Betchel, and Shorty told Harlan Bernie Montoya went to the state chota pendejo factory in Dona Luz about your beanfield.
Amarante Cordova and Carolina, and Eusebio Lavadie and Ladd Devine and Horsethief Shorty, trying to put together the pieces of what worried him so profoundly.
Horsethief Shorty Wilson, namely, he liked and trusted hellraisers, blasphemers, whoremongers, and loudmouthed alcoholics, knowing exactly how to keep the edge off by paying them fair and feeding them well to boot.
Horsethief Shorty murmured, perplexed, biting his lips to keep from laughing, lacking an answer for once.
Horsethief Shorty was lounging in a wing-back chair with one leg dangling over an arm, smoking a cigar.
Chamisa County included two teams from Milagro: the Saints, who were made up largely of players from the town, including Charley Bloom, Rlhi Archuleta, Johnny Pacheco, Jimmy Ortega, Benny Maestas, Claudio Garcia, and Joe Mondragon, and the Angels, who were largely a Devine conglomerate, and for whom Horse-thief Shorty, Nick Rael, BernabS Montoya, and Harlan Betchel and his anemic seventeen-year-old son, Albie, played.
At the moment of impact, Joe stopped on a dune, turned, began to charge Shorty, pulled up short, ripped off an obscene finger as he screamed a string of obscenities in Spanish, and then he almost slugged his cousin Floyd when the first baseman picked up the ball and tagged Joe out.
The shortstop, a junior high school kid named Bobby Maes, scooped up the ball and tossed underhand to Joe Mondragon, who, instead of firing it on to first, lowered a shoulder and drove himself savagely into Horsethief Shorty, who was trying to throw a block on him to queer the double play.