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Definition of SHRIMP

1. Verb. Fish for shrimp. "In the summer they like to go out and SHRIMP"

2. Noun. Disparaging terms for small people.

3. Noun. Any of various edible decapod crustaceans.

4. Noun. Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible.

Definition of SHRIMP

1. v. t. To contract; to shrink.

2. 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.

Definition of SHRIMP

1. Acronym. sensitive high resolution ion microprobe ¹

2. Noun. any of many small decapod crustaceans, of the infraorders ''Caridea'', many of which are edible ¹

3. Noun. the flesh of the crustaceans ¹

4. Noun. (slang) a small, puny or unimportant person ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) to fish for shrimp ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of SHRIMP

1. to catch shrimps (small marine decapods) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of SHRIMP

1. 1. 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. In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form. In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See Fairy, and Brine. 2. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; in contempt. "This weak and writhled shrimp." (Shak) Opossum shrimp. The little tern (Sterna minuta). Shrimp net, a dredge net fixed upon a pole, or a sweep net dragged over the fishing ground. Origin: OE. Shrimp; probably so named from its shriveled appearance. See Shrimp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of SHRIMP

shriked shrikelike shrikes shriking shrill shrilled shriller shrillest shrillier shrilling

shrilling(a) shrillness shrillnesses shrills shrilly shrimp shrimp-fish shrimp Newburg shrimp cocktail shrimp sauce

shrimpboat shrimpboats shrimpburger shrimpburgers shrimped shrimper shrimperies shrimpers shrimpery

Literary usage of SHRIMP

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"Brine-shrimp (Artemia), a genus of small animals belonging to the Branchiopod (gill-footed) division of Crustacea. They have leaf-like swimming and ..."

2. The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1922)
"minutes, then set the pot aside and let the Shrimp cool In their own water. ... A great deal of salt is required in boiling, as the Shrimp absorb but little ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"United States Fish Commission Report for 1892 gives a bibliography of oyster publications in English, including 546 papers by 278 authors. Shrimp. ..."

4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1862)
"SHRIMP, a common decapod or 10-footed and long-tailed crustacean, ... Though the American shrimp received from Say a different name from that of Europe, ..."

5. Hotel Meat Cooking: Comprising Hotel and Restaurant Fish and Oyster Cooking by Jessup Whitehead (1901)
"The Florida shrimp is different. Then the shrimp ought to be skinned or shelled before being eaten, but the Northern shrimp is so small, that any healthy ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"I enclose a few Shrimp "moults," whereof the most enormous quantity drifted ashore on Thursday, August 18, 1868. They were left by the tide in windrows, ..."

7. A Year at the Shore by Philip Henry Gosse (1865)
"excellence; or, as the people here say, the sand shrimp, to distinguish it from the prawn ... And this sand shrimp finds a ready sale in the Torquay market; ..."

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