"cover shorts" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "covers shorts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covering shorts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covered shorts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covered shorts",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "cover shorts (third-person singular simple present covers shorts, present participle covering shorts, simple past and past participle covered shorts)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
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        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
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            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-cover_shorts-en-verb-nlUm13X1",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sold short",
          "sell short"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) To buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements, etc."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cover shorts"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "covers shorts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covering shorts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covered shorts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covered shorts",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cover shorts (third-person singular simple present covers shorts, present participle covering shorts, simple past and past participle covered shorts)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sold short",
          "sell short"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) To buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements, etc."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cover shorts"
}