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short stuff en · NOUN

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1. (derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncountable) Term of address for a child or small person.
   • Snarks cut in. "I know all about that sort of thing! And I can tell a demon from a phantom as well as the next magical creature!" "Yes," the Brownie replied. "But did you?" "Listen, short stuff!" Snarks was shouting now. 1986, Craig Shaw Gardner, A Multitude of Monsters:
   • "Okay, short stuff," he said upon reaching the kitchen table where they'd started. "Time for bed. You too, Grace." 2002, Sandra Steffen, Day by Day:
2. (uncountable) Deliveries that bounce relatively far from the batsman or batswoman.

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