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Meaning of short short | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A very short film, typically of a length less than three minutes.
  2. Ellipsis of short short story.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Examples

“Fifty Short Shorts. An omnibus of entertaining short short stories by America’s favorite tellers of tales”
“Verga’s Wolf cannot but repeat her passions, Tolstoy’s Alyosha his passivity. Themes of obsession work especially well in this kind of short short.”
“The most often cited example of a classical short-short, Petronius’ “The Widow of Ephesus,” is no rude prototype.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

short short story short shorts short shrift short sight short six short sleeper

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