This story is based upon a research article, On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl, recently published by Siegfried D. Schubert, Max J. Suarez, Philip J. Pegion , Randal D. Koster, and Julio T. Bacmeister in the March 19, 2004 edition of SCIENCE Magazine.
short stack(Noun) A relatively small amount of chips relative to the stakes. short stack(Noun) An amount of chips which is far less than the average in the tournament. short stack(Noun) A player who is in possession of a short stack. short stack(Noun) Two pancakes one on top of the other, as opposed to a stack of three.
Short in English means that the length or distance of something is close by, or it is over a relatively small distance. The use of the word short in short to ground is actually short (lol!) for the full term short circuit. To create a short circuit in Electronics, you basically remove everything in the way between one node and another, and directly connect them. Can be done numerous ways, but the simplest is of course a [short!] wire or PCB trace.