<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.</li><li>the act, process, or an instance of making or becoming short.</li><li>the act or process of dropping one or more syllables from a word or phrase to form a shorter word with the same meaning, as in forming piano from pianoforte or phone from telephone.</li><li>clipped form.</li></ul>