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1. v. t. To contract; to shrink.
2. v. 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.
3. v. In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
4. v. 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.
5. v. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
6. n. disparaging terms for small people
7. n. any of various edible decapod crustaceans
8. n. small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
9. v. fish for shrimp
10. To contract; to shrink. [Obs.] 1. (Zoöl.) (a) 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. (b) In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form. (c) 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. 2. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt. This weak and writhled shrimp. Shak. Opossum shrimp. (Zoöl.) See under Opossum. -- Spector shrimp, or Skeleton shrimp (Zoöl.), any slender amphipod crustacean of the genus Caprella and allied genera. See Illust. under Læmodopoda. -- Shrimp catcher (Zoöl.), the little tern (Sterna minuta). -- Shrimp net, a dredge net fixed upon a pole, or a sweep net dragged over the fishing ground.
11. To contract; to shrink. [Obs.]
12. n:100 n. small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible v. fish for shrimp