In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
SHORTCHANGE
Etymology
Verb
shortchange (third-person singular simple present shortchanges, present participle shortchanging, simple past and past participle shortchanged)
To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.
(by extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid.
To make disadvantaged by design.
Source: Wiktionary
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