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单词 short-sheet
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Definition of short-sheet in English:

short-sheet

verb
[with object]North American informal
  • 1Make (a bed) as an apple-pie bed.

    let's short-sheet Carrie's bed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To our knowledge, no one from SAIS has ever short-sheeted a bed.
    • These included short-sheeting a fellow guardsman's bed, shooting mailboxes and road signs for fun, and raiding the base commissary for Pop Tarts.
    1. 1.1 Give an apple-pie bed to (someone)
      we short-sheeted everyone in our cabin
    2. 1.2 Cheat or treat unjustly.
      we retirees have been short-sheeted for a long time
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I'm doing what I think is important, talking to people that are real people about what I feel to be the truth about things, but I feel like I get short-sheeted if I do that.
      • Observe as a cabal of billionaires cadges an election and takes over the country, waging war and short-sheeting the citizenry.
 
 

Definition of short-sheet in US English:

short-sheet

verb
[with object]North American informal
  • Fold and arrange the sheet on (a bed) in such a way that anyone getting into the bed will be unable to stretch their legs out beyond the middle of the bed, as a practical joke.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To our knowledge, no one from SAIS has ever short-sheeted a bed.
    • These included short-sheeting a fellow guardsman's bed, shooting mailboxes and road signs for fun, and raiding the base commissary for Pop Tarts.
 
 
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