"short short" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: short shorts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} short short (plural short shorts)
  1. Short for short short story. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: short short story
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  2. A very short film, typically of a length less than three minutes.
    Sense id: en-short_short-en-noun-BFHjYAL1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 47 53 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 50

Inflected forms

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