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short-sheet (shôrt

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tr.v. short-sheet·ed, short-sheet·ing, short-sheets

1. To make (a bed) by doubling back a single sheet so that the bed looks properly made but will not allow a person to lie at full length in it.

2. To short-sheet the bed of (a person) as a way of playing a trick.

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No references found			But Good Housekeeping magazine says some companies are short-sheeting customers with wording such as ``two-ply,'' which leads some folks to think that a 200 thread count sheet is really 400. YOUR PLACE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) No, it's not that the seniors are banding together in "wilding" sprees, or that teams of rogue CNAs are short-sheeting resident beds. Safety in numbers by Contemporary Long Term Care Schwartz explained, that many of the hives are in trees that are cut down to harvest the honey, thereby destroying the habitat and short-sheeting the industry's potential. Heifer Project Gets Grant to Promote Bee Keeping by O'Reilly, Brendan / Arkansas Business			short-circuit short-dated short-day short-day plant short-eared short-grass short-haired short-handed short-handled short-haul short-headed short-horned grasshopper Short-jointed short-leaf pine short-list short-lived short-nosed short-order short-order cook short-range short-range air defense engagement zone short-range ballistic missile short-range transport aircraft short-run short-sheet short-sheeting short-sighted short-sightedly short-sightedness short-sleeved short-snouted short-spoken short-spurred short-spurred fragrant orchid short-staffed short-stalked short-staple cotton short-stay short-stemmed short-stop short-stop bath short-tailed short-tailed shearwater short-tailed shrew short-tempered short-term short-term memory short-termism short-time short-toed eagle short-waisted			short-range forecast Short-Range Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Short-Range Layered Atmospheric Model Short-Range Missile Defense Short-Range Modem short-range navigation Short-Range Nuclear Forces short-range order Short-Range Radar Short-Range Radar Short-Range Surface-To-Surface Missile Short-range Transmitter short-range transport aircraft short-range unmanned aerial vehicle Short-ribs short-run short-run short-run Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve Short-Run Average Cost Short-Run Equilibrium Short-run operating activities Short-sale rule Short-Scar Periareolar Inferior Pedicle Reduction Short-selling Short-selling Short-selling short-sheet short-sheeted short-sheeting short-sheets Short-short test Short-Short Tests Short-shorts Short-shorts Short-shorts Short-sighted Short-sighted Short-sighted short-sightedly Short-sightedness Short-sightedness Short-sightedness short-sleeved short-slot coupler short-snouted Short-Sold Short-Sold Short-Sold short-spoken short-spurred short-spurred fragrant orchid short-staffed short-stalked short-staple cotton short-stay Short-Stay Emergency Observation Ward Short-Stay Surgical Unit short-stemmed short-stop

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