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Definition of short-sheet in English: short-sheetverb [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 Give an apple-pie bed to (someone)
we short-sheeted everyone in our cabin - 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-sheetverb [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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