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shortcut

noun
/ˈʃɔːtkʌt/UK/ˈʃoɹtˌkʌt/CA/ˈʃoːt.kɐt/

Etymology

From short + cut.

  1. derived from *kwetwą✻ — “meat, flesh”
  2. derived from *kutjaną✻
  3. derived from *kytja✻
  4. inherited from cutten
  5. formed as shortcut — “short + cut”

Definitions

  1. A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.

  2. A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps.

    • East Midlands Railway is introducing new shortcuts for claiming compensation in the event of late-running services.

  3. A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.

    • There are shortcuts to some of my favourite applications on my desktop.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Ellipsis of keyboard shortcut.

    2. To take or use a shortcut

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shortcut. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA