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short-ˈchange, v. orig. U.S.
[f. short change: see short a. 15 a.]
trans. To rob by giving insufficient change. Also fig., to deprive (a person) of his due; to cheat, deceive. So short-ˈchanged ppl. a.; short-ˈchanger; short-ˈchanging vbl. n.
1903Ade People you Know 30 Brad was out in the back Townships short-changing the Farmers. 1914[see gyp n.1 3]. 1920C. R. Cooper Under Big Top 205 The gambling and the graft of the side shows, the short-changers in the ‘connection’, the constant form of Temptation ever beckoning! 1928L. North Parasites 304 The girl at the cash-register short-changed him. 1946Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 14 Feb. 4/1 Henry C. Clausen..told Pearl Harbor investigators tonight that the Navy in the South Pacific was ‘short-changing’ the Army right up to the latter months of the war on the information it received from decoding Japanese messages. 1958Photoplay Oct. 33/2 As a child, I felt that life had short-changed me. 1959J. Braine Vodi vii. 108 He'd never bought a drink for a barmaid in his life; he said that..the bitches always short-changed you anyway. 1962A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiv. 278 Short-changing in the stores. 1964D. Francis Nerve i. 9 He probably shot himself because that whey-faced bitch short-changed him in bed. 1976‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird i. 14 The cultural circuit for short-changed minorities. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 788 My mom and pop have worked fourteen hours a day, six days a week for more than fifty years... From birth to death they've been short-changed. |