Shrimp
To contract; to shrink.
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.
In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.
Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
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Shrimp Quotations
I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
Thomas Gray
I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
Solomon Burke
I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.
Brooke Burke
Shrimp Translations
shrimp in Dutch is garnaal
shrimp in German is Garnele, Krabbe
shrimp in Italian is granchiolino
shrimp in Spanish is gamba
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