"short-sheet" meaning in All languages combined

See short-sheet on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-short-sheet.ogg Forms: short-sheets [present, singular, third-person], short-sheeting [participle, present], short-sheeted [participle, past], short-sheeted [past], short sheet [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} short-sheet (third-person singular simple present short-sheets, present participle short-sheeting, simple past and past participle short-sheeted)
  1. (idiomatic) To play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-short-sheet-en-verb-zrGodWFt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Bedding

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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