short-order

1. 1.

   of or relating to food that can be prepared quickly

   “a short-order cook”

Questions about short-order

What does short-order mean?

short-order means "of or relating to food that can be prepared quickly".

How many syllables are in short-order?

short-order has 3 syllables: shor-t-or-der. The stress falls on "shor".

Is short-order a common word?

short-order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.