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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.
Generic synonyms: Small Person
Derivative terms: Runty, Runty, Shrimpy
3. Noun. Any of various edible decapod crustaceans.
Substance meronyms: Shrimp Cocktail
Generic synonyms: Seafood
Specialized synonyms: River Prawn
Derivative terms: Prawn
4. Noun. Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible.
Group relationships: Crangonidae, Family Crangonidae
Specialized synonyms: Pistol Shrimp, Snapping Shrimp
Terms within: Pleopod, Swimmeret, Prawn
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
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