jean shorts

plural noun

: shorts made of denim or jean

She was … wearing a white T-shirt and ripped jean shorts …

—Vanity Fair

The shop has jean shorts in different shades of blue as well as black and pink.

—Joanne Berger DuMound

called also jorts

Examples of jean shorts in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sweeney, 28, wore a heavy black leather jacket, jean shorts and black boots, accessorizing with a large red purse. —Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025

Girls wore their jean shorts, tinsel glittering in hair, and boys donned their basketball shorts, artfully paired with socks and sandals. —Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025

The Bronx rapper posted a clip dancing to the thumping single, which finds her twerking in a pair of jean shorts with a red leather jacket top and strappy blue heels. —Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025

Many are keeping cool in jean shorts, especially longer styles. —Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 18 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for jean shorts

• aborts
• airports
• comports
• consorts
• distorts
• exhorts
• imports
• outports
• passports
• purports
• rapports
• reports