khaki short
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- noun
- /ˈkɑːki ʃɔrt/
- I spent the afternoon at the park in my comfortable khaki shorts and a casual T-shirt.
- khaki shorts and shirt
- wearing khaki shorts
- a pair of khaki shorts
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Examples
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The uniform featured khaki shorts.
Fiction book (1997) -
You mean that guy in the khaki shorts?
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Just a pair of khaki shorts and some hiking boots.
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And why are all the women only wearing khaki shorts from Aeropostale?
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Meanwhile, Paul had been showering and changing into his home clothes, a worn shirt and khaki shorts.
Fiction book (2000) -
I was wearing a white oxford shirt and khaki shorts, and they were both saturated with sweat.
Fiction book (1996) -
As he leaned against the jamb, she thought of how silly he looked in khaki shorts.
Fiction book (2000) -
Delia wore the same clothes as yesterday: khaki shorts, white T-shirt, Peace Corps sweatshirt, and the beads.
Fiction book (2002) -
His white legs were virtually hairless and looked ridiculously thin in his baggy khaki shorts and thick-soled athletic shoes.
Fiction book (2001) -
She's wearing a khaki shirt with red-and-black epaulets, the tails knotted at her midsection, and khaki shorts.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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Clothes worn on the lower body that end above the knee and have two separate legs
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Trousers ending above the knee that people wear in warm weather or for sports
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Short trousers that reach to or just above the knee, often worn in warm weather
Pants that end above the knee, often worn for beach or play
Short pants that end at the knee and are worn for sport or hot weather
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is transparently composed of a color adjective 'khaki' and the garment word 'short(s)', so a learner who knows those constituents can easily infer it refers to shorts made of khaki-colored fabric. The minor issue that the input uses the singular 'short' rather than the more usual plural 'shorts' does not obscure the compositional meaning, which follows a common cross-linguistic color + clothing pattern.
Etymology
Khaki short comes from the color word khaki, which may come from a word for 'dust' because old soldiers used a light brown dye to hide in dusty places, and shorts are short trousers. So a khaki short means a short pair of pants in that light brown color, often worn for casual or outdoor use.