shorter

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔɹtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔːtə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: short‧er

shorter

1. comparative form of short: more short.

   There are two routes to get there. We're in a rush so we'll take the shorter one.

• shortest

shorter (plural shorters)

1. (colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
   • 1858, George Borrow, The Romany Rye, volume 2, page 128:

     My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]

• Rothers, rethors, rhetors, rothers