Shrimp is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHRIMP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to catch small edible crustaceans
• fish for shrimps
• To contract; to shrink.
• 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.
• In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
• In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.
• Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
NOUN:
• a small free-swimming crustacean with an elongated body, typically marine and frequently of commercial importance as food.
• a small, physically weak person
• small edible shellfish
• disparaging terms for small people
• any of various edible decapod crustaceans
• small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to catch shrimps (small marine decapods)

Words related to SHRIMP

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Words that contain SHRIMP

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How to use SHRIMP in a sentence

• Serve on a hot napkin, garnish with cut lemon and parsley, and send lobster or shrimp sauce, and plain melted butter to table with it.
• If the beak is quite smooth its wearer is a Shrimp.
• After much wriggling, the Shrimp appears in a new soft skin.
• While the skin is still soft the Shrimp grows very quickly.
• He showed us his shrimp pond, rubber plantations, cows, fishing ponds, orchids, giant bamboo filter ponds, etc.
• The crabs were so angry at his scorn that they ran at the shrimp and pinched him until he promised to help them in the battle.
• When these children were old enough to walk, the shrimp often visited them and related to them the sad fate of their parents.
• An outward-bound shrimp lugger saw the figures on Au Fer reef and came to anchor beyond the shoals.
• The shrimp peeped out and saw him go back into this room F, which has been empty for several weeks.
• One is taiaro, made of the hard meat of the cocoanut, with pounded shrimp, and allowed to ferment slightly.
• I passed hours on the reef with Raiere and Matatini or in canoes, drawing the nets and catching shrimp and eels.
• Raiere cast a glow upon the water with his torch, and we saw the shrimp resting upon the bottom or leaping into the air in foot-wide bounds.
• He poised his smallest lance and thrust it with a very quick, but exact, motion, so that almost every time he impaled a shrimp upon its prongs.
• I missed the still body through the deceptive shadows of the water, or failed to strike home because of the lightning-like movements of the alarmed shrimp.
• Since April there has been a serious shrimp shortage.
• But before one eats a shrimp a certain deftness and delicacy of manipulation are needed to effect the neat extraction of the creature from its unpalatable cuticle.
• The shrimp test is one before which physically strong men have broken down, while the seemingly weak have displayed amazing fortitude.
• The flesh is very wholesome, and tastes like shrimp.
• The right whale has an immense tongue, and lives by suction, the food being a kind of small shrimp.
• I could not understand six thousand natives putting up with that withered shrimp of a tyrant.
• She boiled the clothes in the same large black iron pot in which she boiled crabs and shrimp in the summer-time.
• This made the crabs very angry, and they pinched the shrimp until he promised to help them win the battle.
• Some time after this thousands of little crabs appeared near the shore, and the shrimp often visited them and told them of the sad fate of their parents.
• Raw or cooked it is a great delicacy, and if you shut your eyes it tastes like a sweet shrimp.
• If you have scooped shrimps from their native heath, you have discovered the shrimp, too, to be a parasite.
• Every person too, must have remarked the agility of the old shrimp when caught.

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