- shortchange
- {v. phr.} To return less money to a customer in a store than is coming to him or her; cheat. * /I was shortchanged by the cashier when I got seven dollars back instead of eight./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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shortchange — also short change, to cheat by giving too little change to, 1903, from SHORT (Cf. short) (adj.) + CHANGE (Cf. change) … Etymology dictionary
shortchange — [v] cheat bamboozle*, bilk, deceive, defraud, double deal, dupe, finagle, fleece, flimflam, gyp*, hose, mislead, rip off*, rook*, sandbag, scam, screw, shaft, stiff, swindle, take, trick; concepts 59,139,192 … New thesaurus
shortchange — [shôrtchānj′] vt., vi. shortchanged, shortchanging Informal 1. to give less money than is due in change 2. to cheat by depriving of something due shortchanger n … English World dictionary
shortchange — short|change [ ,ʃɔrt tʃeındʒ ] verb transitive 1. ) INFORMAL to treat someone or something in an unfair way by not giving them enough of the praise, opportunities, attention, etc. that they need or deserve: Many people in the office felt that… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
shortchange — (ˈ) ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ transitive verb Etymology: short change 1. : to give less than the correct amount of change to charged that the cashier had shortchanged him 2. : to deprive of something due or to give less than the due amount of to : cheat most… … Useful english dictionary
shortchange — {v. phr.} To return less money to a customer in a store than is coming to him or her; cheat. * /I was shortchanged by the cashier when I got seven dollars back instead of eight./ … Dictionary of American idioms
shortchange — transitive verb Date: 1903 1. to give less than the correct amount of change to 2. to deprive of or give less than something due ; cheat < was shortchanged out of a promotion > • shortchanger noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
shortchange — shortchanger, n. /shawrt chaynj /, v.t., shortchanged, shortchanging. 1. to give less than the correct change to. 2. to deal with unfairly or dishonestly, esp. to cheat. [1890 95, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
shortchange — verb a) To defraud someone by giving them less change than they ought to be given after a transaction. I gave him $10 for a $5 item and he only gave me $1 back. I got shortchanged! b) To deprive someone of something for which they paid. The… … Wiktionary
shortchange — Synonyms and related words: beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp,… … Moby Thesaurus
