| NOUN | person | shrimp, runt, peewee, half-pint | disparaging terms for small people |
|---|---|---|---|
| food | shrimp, prawn | any of various edible decapod crustaceans | |
| animal | shrimp | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers | |
| VERB | competition | shrimp | fish for shrimp |
| Sounds | shrih'mp | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | blimp / Blimp ... wimp / WIMP: 11 rhymes with ihmp... | |
| Meaning | disparaging terms for small people. | |
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| Synonyms | runt, peewee, half-pint | |
| Broader | small person | A person of below average size |
| Spanish | canijo, enano, renacuajo | |
| Catalan | caguerot, nap-buf, tap de bassa, tap | |
| Adjectives | shrimpy | (used especially of persons) of inferior size |
| Meaning | Any of various edible decapod crustaceans. | |
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| Synonym | prawn | |
| Part of | shrimp | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers |
| Narrower | river prawn | large Australian prawn |
| Broader | seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc |
| Substance of | shrimp cocktail | A cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce |
| Spanish | camarón, gamba | |
| Catalan | gamba | |
| Verbs | shrimp | fish for shrimp |
| Meaning | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible. | |
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| Member of | Crangonidae, family Crangonidae | shrimps |
| Parts | prawn, shrimp | Any of various edible decapod crustaceans |
| swimmeret, pleopod | 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 | |
| Narrower | snapping shrimp, pistol shrimp | small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae |
| Broader | decapod crustacean, decapod | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax |
| Spanish | camarón, caridea, gamba, langostino | |
| Catalan | carideu, gamba | |
| Verbs | shrimp | fish for shrimp |
| Meaning | fish for shrimp. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Model | In the summer they like to go out and shrimp | |
| Broader | fish | catch or try to catch fish or shellfish |
| Nouns | shrimp | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers |
| shrimp | any of various edible decapod crustaceans | |
| shrimper | a vessel engaged in shrimping | |
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