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Shorten and halve (Posted on 2005-09-21)

A six letter word, that when you take out its last letter, becomes half of its meaning. What word is it?

No Solution Yet Submitted by j441167

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probably not correct

| Comment 7 of 33 |

"Shorts" normally means "a pair of shorts", so deleting the 's' would mean half of it. Probably not the right answer, but the only one I can think of.

Posted by Robby Goetschalckx on 2005-09-22 11:54:31

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