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shrimp

  [shrimp] noun, plural shrimps, (especially collectively) shrimp for 1, verb, adjective
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–noun
1. any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
2. Informal. a diminutive or insignificant person.
–verb (used without object)
3. to catch or try to catch shrimps.
–adjective
4. (of food) made with or containing shrimp: shrimp salad.
5. of or pertaining to shrimp or their catching, processing, and marketing: a shrimp boat.
Origin:
1300–50; ME shrimpe crustacean, puny person; akin to MHG schrimpfen to contract, OE scrimman to shrink

Related forms:
shrimplike, adjective
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shrimp   (shrĭmp)   
n.   pl. shrimp or shrimps

    1. Any of various small, chiefly marine decapod crustaceans of the suborder Natantia, many species of which are edible, having a compressed or elongated body with a well-developed abdomen, long legs and antennae, and a long spinelike projection of the carapace.

    2. Any of various similar crustaceans, such as certain isopods and amphipods.

    3. A person regarded as unimportant.

    4. A person who is small in stature.

  2. Slang

    1. A person regarded as unimportant.

    2. A person who is small in stature.

intr.v.   shrimped, shrimp·ing, shrimps
To fish for shrimp.

[Middle English shrimpe, possibly of Low German origin.]
shrimp'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
shrimp

  1. n.
    a small person. : I'm such a shrimp. I just have short genes.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

shrimp 
1327, "kind of slender shellfish," probably from O.N. skreppa "thin person," from P.Gmc. *skrempanan (see scrimp). Related to O.E. scrimman "to shrink." The connecting notion is probably "thinness" (cf. Dan. dialectal skrimpe "thin cattle"). The meaning "puny person" in Eng. is attested from 1386.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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