shrimp

UK /ʃɹɪmp/ US /ʃɹɪmp/
noun 7verb 2

Definitions

noun

1

Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.

1851, "A Lady of Charleston" (Sarah Rutledge), The Carolina Housewife, 2013, unnumbered page, Butter well a deep dish, upon which place a thick layer of pounded biscuit; having picked and boiled your shrimps, put them upon the biscuit; a layer of shrimps, with small pieces of butter, a little pepper, mace or nutmeg.

Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms.

2

The flesh of such crustaceans.

3

A small, puny or unimportant person.

4

Synonym of butterface

5

A small penis.

shrimp dick

verb

1

To fish for shrimp.

Fishing, shrimping and crabbing are permitted on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:[…]

Although the line is not always sharply drawn, offshore shrimping and inshore shrimping require different strategies.

2

To contract; to shrink.

noun

1

Acronym of sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe.

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