- butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- the act, process, or an instance of making or becoming short.
- Linguistics.
- 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.
- clipped form.
- butter, lard, or other fat, used in a dough, cake mixture, etc, to make the mixture short
