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shortcut

[ shawrt-kuht ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a shorter none or quicker way.
a method, procedure, policy, etc., that reduces the time or energy needed to accomplish something.
Computers.
1. a link to a software application, file, or website, usually represented as a graphical icon that can be clicked on to quickly access or open it:
  You can create a desktop shortcut to a web page you've visited.
2. Also called keyboard shortcut. hotkey.

First recorded in 1560–70; short none + cut none

Then, he set to work building a shortcut that would take the minable minerals he found through the mountain.

This sort of “shortcut” is frowned upon in the martial arts community.

It might also stop falling prey to the notion that the Muslim Brotherhood offers a shortcut to democratic stability.

And then there was the ultimate shortcut: using brand-name drugs as stand-ins for its own in bioequivalence studies.

Unwisely, he took a shortcut and so missed the impassable Cabora Bassa cataracts blocking the river.

Betty Byrd held fast to Doris as they turned into the side wood road which was a shortcut to the old Dorchester highway.

He went slowly over his shortcut, not to leave the widely circling Toussaint too much in his rear.

Lafe was sitting at the window as she ran through the shortcut along the tracks.

At one place, one of the native girls pointed out to us what she called a shortcut.

A shortcut brought me—I could wish it had been shorter still.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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