Shrimp

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various small, chiefly marine decapod crustaceans of the suborder Natantia, many species of which are edible, having a compressed or elongated body with a well-developed abdomen, long legs and antennae, and a long spinelike projection of the carapace.
  • n. Any of various similar crustaceans, such as certain isopods and amphipods.
  • n. Slang A person regarded as unimportant.
  • n. Slang A person who is small in stature.
  • verb-intransitive. To fish for shrimp.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, with slender legs, long whiskers and long abdomens
  • n. the flesh of the crustaceans
  • n. a small, puny or unimportant person
  • v. to fish for shrimp
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To contract; to shrink.
  • n.
  • n. Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of decapoda.
  • n. In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
  • n. In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans. See under fairy, and brine.
  • n. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To contract; shrink.
  • n. A salt-water long-tailed ten-footed crustacean of the family Crangonidæ, and especially of the genus Crangon.
  • n. A little wrinkled person; a dwarfish creature; a manikin: in contempt.
  • To catch or fish for shrimps.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. fish for shrimp
  • n. any of various edible decapod crustaceans
  • n. disparaging terms for small people
  • n. small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    shrimped    shrimping    shrimps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fish    small person   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    fairy    brine   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    contract    shrink    dwarf    prawn   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blimp    blimp    chimp    crimp    imp    limp    pimp    primp    scrimp    skimp   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    lobster    oyster    prawn    crab    mussel    seafood    pork    sausage    squid    shellfish