short-change

short-change somebody

(informal)

to cheat someone by giving them less than they expected (usually passive) No one told me the film was only an hour long - I was short-changed!

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Delice	-	English (Rare)
Bishop	BISH-əp	English
Haskel	-	Yiddish
Jerusha	jə-ROO-shə (English)	Biblical
Hadley	[''hædli]
JÓSka	-	Hungarian