Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shrimp

3 senses of shrimp

Sense 1
runt, shrimp, peewee, half-pint -- (disparaging terms for small people)
       => small person -- (a person of below average size)

Sense 2
prawn, shrimp -- (any of various edible decapod crustaceans)
       => seafood -- (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Sense 3
shrimp -- (small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible)
       => decapod crustacean, decapod -- (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shrimp

1 sense of shrimp

Sense 1
shrimp -- (fish for shrimp)
       => fish -- (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends")

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