"Kerry, Richard" <richard.ke...@atos.net> writes: > "Shorted" is what happens when you put a piece of wire across the terminals > of a battery ... (bang, smoke, etc). > It's short for "short-circuited".
Or it is what you do to something that you sell and that you yet do not own, expecting that you can later buy it cheaper, allowing you to pocket the difference ;-).
