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shrimp /ʃrɪmp /noun (plural same or shrimps) 1A small free-swimming crustacean with an elongated body, typically marine and frequently of commercial importance as food.- Pandalus, Crangon, and other genera, order Decapoda.
While blue whales may occasionally feed on pelagic crabs and small fishes, their diet is almost exclusively euphausiid shrimps commonly called krill....- Eumalacostraca is the group that contains most of the animals the general public recognize as crustaceans, such as shrimp, crabs, lobsters.
- The trip north is slow for the cow-calf pair because of stops for nursing and the occasional meal of mysid shrimp or other food encountered.
1.1 informal, derogatory A small, physically weak person: I can handle a shrimp like him any time...- Are you sure you want to hang out with that shrimp?
verb [no object] (usually go shrimping) Fish for shrimps: some families still go shrimping off the coast at Lytham at Trebetherick you paddle on Daymer Bay or shrimp off Gully...- "We grew up with people who shrimped for a living," she says.
- They hunted alligator and went shrimping and had their own little wooden shrimp boats.
- A lot of people have gone shrimping.
Origin Middle English: probably related to Middle Low German schrempen 'to wrinkle', Middle High German schrimpfen 'to contract', also to scrimp. Rhymes blimp, chimp, crimp, gimp, imp, limp, pimp, primp, scrimp, simp, skimp, wimp |