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Shrimper
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| shrimp (ʃrɪmp) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any of various chiefly marine decapod crustaceans of the genus Crangon and related genera, having a slender flattened body with a long tail and a single pair of pincers |
| 2. | any of various similar but unrelated crustaceans, such as the opossum shrimp and mantis shrimp |
| 3. | Also called: freshwater shrimp any of various freshwater shrimplike amphipod crustaceans of the genus Gammarus, esp G. pulex |
| 4. | See also opossum shrimp Also called: sand shrimp any of various shrimplike amphipod crustaceans of the genus Gammarus, esp G. locusta |
| 5. | informal a diminutive person, esp a child |
| —vb | |
| 6. | (intr) to fish for shrimps |
| [C14: probably of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German schrempen to shrink; see | |
| 'shrimper | |
| —n | |
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