Usually means: Faster, alternative route to goal.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word shortcut:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortcut: Merriam-Webster
  2. shortcut, shortcut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shortcut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shortcut: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shortcut: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shortcut, shortcut: Wordnik
  7. shortcut: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shortcut: Wiktionary
  9. shortcut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shortcut (short cut): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shortcut: Dictionary.com
  12. shortcut: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Shortcut (computing), Shortcut (magazine), Shortcut (road), Shortcut, The Shortcut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. shortcut: Rhymezone
  15. shortcut: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shortcut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. shortcut: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortcut: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. shortcut: Netlingo
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. shortcut: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortcut: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.
noun:  A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps.
noun:  (computing, in the Microsoft family of operating systems) A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.
verb:  To take or use a shortcut
noun:  (computing) Short for keyboard shortcut. [(computing) A key, or more usually a combination of keys, on the keyboard of a personal computer that activates a specific, predefined function.]

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