EGAVE

shrimp

About 2.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
  2. noun The flesh of such crustaceans.
  3. noun A small, puny or unimportant person.
  4. noun Synonym of butterface
  5. noun A small penis.
    shrimp dick
  6. verb To fish for shrimp.
  7. verb To contract; to shrink.

Similar words

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Word family

shrimped shrimpier shrimpiest shrimping shrimplike shrimps shrimpy

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