short-sheet en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) To play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short.
Another recreation that appealed to us boys was ‘short-sheeting’ the elderly patients’ beds.
1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 11:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| short sheet | alternative | lexicographic | |
| short-sheeting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| short-sheets | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| short-sheeted | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| short-sheeted | Tense=Past | lexicographic |