Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small, chiefly marine, often edible decapod crustaceans that have a laterally compressed, elongated body with long antennae and long legs used for swimming. The shrimps include species belonging to the superfamily Penaeoidea of the suborder Dendrobranchiata and to the infraorder Caridea of the suborder Pleocyemata.
- noun The flesh of one of these crustaceans, used as food.
- noun Any of various similar crustaceans, such as a fairy shrimp.
- noun Derogatory Slang A person who is small in stature.
- intransitive verb To fish for shrimp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To contract; shrink.
- To catch or fish for shrimps.
- noun A salt-water long-tailed ten-footed crustacean of the family Crangonidæ, and especially of the genus Crangon.
- noun A little wrinkled person; a dwarfish creature; a manikin: in contempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To contract; to shrink.
- noun 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 alsoprawns . SeeIllust. ofdecapoda . - noun In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe
Caridea , or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form. - noun In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans. See under
fairy , andbrine . - noun Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
- noun (Zoöl.) See under
Opossum . - noun (Zoöl.) any slender amphipod crustacean of the genus Caprella and allied genera. See
Illust. underLæmodopoda . - noun (Zoöl.) the little tern (
Sterna minuta ). - noun a dredge net fixed upon a pole, or a sweep net dragged over the fishing ground.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of many swimming, often edible
crustaceans , with slender legs, long whiskers and long abdomens - noun uncountable the flesh of the crustaceans
- noun slang a small,
puny orunimportant person - verb intransitive to
fish for shrimp
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fish for shrimp
- noun any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- noun disparaging terms for small people
- noun small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Anyway, like I was sayin ', shrimp is the fruit of the sea.
Southern Movie Meme ____Maggie 2008
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Anyway, like I was sayin ', shrimp is the fruit of the sea.
Archive 2008-05-01 ____Maggie 2008
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Slightly spoiled (not rotten) shrimp is also good.
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Cook about 5 more minutes until the shrimp is fully cooked, fold in half and place on a plate.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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During a cold New Year's Day trout outing, Ernie Calandrelli tossed out a leftover cocktail shrimp from the prior night's party and bagged a fat steelhead.
Fish Eat Weird Stuff 2009
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Slightly spoiled (not rotten) shrimp is also good.
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Cook about 5 more minutes until the shrimp is fully cooked, fold in half and place on a plate.
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Back in August, when the first family visited New Orleans, the President had himself a quite public shrimp po 'boy, as if to assure us all that Gulf shrimp is nothing to worry about, and I hope he's right, but the jury is definitely still out on that.
Leslie Hatfield: Don't Eat the Mutants: GE Salmon and New Seafood Guidance Leslie Hatfield 2010
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Another local favorite is Early Girl Eatery, where you can indulge in shrimp and grits, or a vegan tofu scramble (8 Wall St.; 828-259-9292; earlygirleatery. com).
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Back in August, when the first family visited New Orleans, the President had himself a quite public shrimp po 'boy, as if to assure us all that Gulf shrimp is nothing to worry about, and I hope he's right, but the jury is definitely still out on that.
Leslie Hatfield: Don't Eat the Mutants: GE Salmon and New Seafood Guidance Leslie Hatfield 2010
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