Definitions for shortcut

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shortcut short·cut

Spelling: [shawrt-kuht]

IPA: /ˈʃɔrtˌkʌt/

Shortcut is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 235 anagrams from letters in shortcut (chorsttu).

Definitions for shortcut

noun

1. a shorter or quicker way.
2. a method, procedure, policy, etc., that reduces the time or energy needed to accomplish something.
3. Computers. a link to a software application, file, or website, usually represented as a graphical icon that can be clicked on to quickly access or open it: Also called keyboard shortcut. hotkey.

adjective

1. constituting or providing a shorter or quicker way:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.

verb (used without object)

1. to use or take a shortcut.

Origin of shortcut

First recorded in 1560-70; short + cut

Examples for shortcut

Unwisely, he took a shortcut and so missed the impassable Cabora Bassa cataracts blocking the river.

However, I'm still hopeful of finding a shortcut through Laro.

I don't want to walk up the hill, even if you do have a shortcut.

“Paying her dues like that, working her way up—she never tried to shortcut anything,” Lavender said.

It might also stop falling prey to the notion that the Muslim Brotherhood offers a shortcut to democratic stability.

Then, he set to work building a shortcut that would take the minable minerals he found through the mountain.

This sort of “shortcut” is frowned upon in the martial arts community.

A shortcut brought me—I could wish it had been shorter still.

"Well, I've got to be one of them," she said in her shortcut American way.

It is a shortcut indicating that the word should have two m's in succession.