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shrimp
/ʃɹɪmp/
noun 7verb 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
asleep, baked, delicious, essential, grilled, huge, spicy
VERB + SHRIMP
ate, eat, find, got, like, loves, made, ordered
SHRIMP + NOUN
cocktail, crab, dinner, dumplings, everything, salad, steak, tom
PREP.
in, with, with
ADV.
only, really
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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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
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Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms.
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Most shrimps belong to one of several families of the Infraorder Caridea (Chapter 4). However, coral shrimps and Venus shrimps are so different from the rest that a separate infraorder is warranted.
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Fishing, shrimping and crabbing are permitted on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:[…]
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Although the line is not always sharply drawn, offshore shrimping and inshore shrimping require different strategies.
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There were times we shrimped in the same boat due to breakdowns and such, but for the most part we each had our own separate boat. We started out using outboard motor boats. However, shrimping with an
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