1.  shrimp(n = noun.person) half-pint, peewee, runt - disparaging terms for small people;
is a kind of small person
Derived form adjective shrimpy₁

2.  shrimp(n = noun.food) prawn - any of various edible decapod crustaceans;
is a kind of seafood
is a part of shrimp
has particulars: river prawn
Derived form verb shrimp₁

3.  shrimp(n = noun.animal) - small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible;
is a kind of decapod, decapod crustacean
has parts: pleopod, swimmeret, prawn, shrimp
is a member of crangonidae, family crangonidae
has particulars: pistol shrimp, snapping shrimp
Derived form verb shrimp₁

   shrimp(v = verb.competition) - fish for shrimp;
is one way to fish
Derived forms noun shrimp₃, noun shrimp₂, noun shrimper₁
Sample sentences: In the summer they like to go out and shrimp

   To contract; to shrink. [1913 Webster]

1.  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. [1913 Webster]

2.  Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt. [1913 Webster]
"This weak and writhled shrimp." [1913 Webster]

shrimp, n. & v.
--n.
1 (pl. same or shrimps) any of various small (esp. marine) edible crustaceans, with ten legs, grey-green when alive and pink when boiled.
2 colloq. a very small slight person.
--v.intr. go catching shrimps.

Idiom:
shrimp plant an evergreen shrub, Justicia brandegeana, bearing small white flowers in clusters of pinkish-brown bracts.

Derivative:
shrimper n.

Etymology:
ME, prob. rel. to MLG schrempen wrinkle, MHG schrimpfen contract, and SCRIMP

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