Shrimp

Quick meaning: Shrimp is a noun meaning (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.

Meaning

(uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To fish for shrimp.
2. To contract; to shrink.
3. 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.
4. (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
5. (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
6. (slang, derogatory) A small penis.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

How many shrimps do you have to eat / Before you make your skin turn pink? / Eat too much and you'll get sick / Shrimps are pretty rich

Word Forms

• shrimps
• shrimping
• shrimped

Synonyms for shrimp

Depending on context, synonyms include prawn, biffer, boner-shrinker, buttface, choad, frump.

Antonyms for shrimp

Common opposites include monsterdick, supercock, superdick, superpenis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prawn, half-pint, runt, peewee, mysid, grasshopper.

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