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shrimp

/ʃɹɪmp/noun, verb1 syllable

Shrimp means: disparaging terms for small people.

Synonyms for shrimp19

noun, as in disparaging terms for small people

runt, peewee, half-pint

noun, as in any of various edible decapod crustaceans

prawn

also used for shrimp

biffer, boner-shrinker, bonerkiller, buttface, choad, frump, minger, monkey, monkeyface, baby carrot, baby cock, baby dick, dicklet, dickling, dicklit

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What does shrimp mean?4

noun

1

disparaging terms for small people

2

any of various edible decapod crustaceans

3

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

verb

1

fish for shrimp

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with shrimp?4

one syllable

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Shrimp in a sentence

  • I ordered garlic shrimp and steak, but only got two shrimp with my steak.Eccles17
  • Crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns are crustaceans.CK
  • Crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns are all crustaceans.CK
  • His behavior was very suspicious, like a shrimp behind a rock.LeeSooHa
  • One of my favorite things to eat is shrimp.CK
  • When was the last time you ate shrimp?CK
  • The shrimp that falls asleep is carried away by the current.Adelpa
  • The shrimp that falls asleep is swept away by the current.Adelpa

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of shrimp

as a noun

plural
shrimp

as a verb

third-person singular
shrimps
present participle
shrimping
past participle
shrimped
past tense
shrimped