| shrimp |  |  | 
| n. (person) | 1. half-pint, peewee, runt, shrimp | disparaging terms for small people. | 
|  | ~ small person | a person of below average size. | 
| n. (food) | 2. prawn, shrimp | any of various edible decapod crustaceans. | 
|  | ~ shrimp | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible. | 
|  | ~ shrimp cocktail | a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce. | 
|  | ~ seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc. | 
|  | ~ river prawn | large Australian prawn. | 
| n. (animal) | 3. shrimp | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible. | 
|  | ~ decapod, decapod crustacean | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax. | 
|  | ~ crangonidae, family crangonidae | shrimps. | 
|  | ~ pistol shrimp, snapping shrimp | small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae. | 
|  | ~ pleopod, swimmeret | one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming. | 
|  | ~ prawn, shrimp | any of various edible decapod crustaceans. | 
| v. (competition) | 4. shrimp | fish for shrimp. | 
|  | ~ fish | catch or try to catch fish or shellfish.; "I like to go fishing on weekends" | 
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