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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shrimp/ʃrɪmp/

▶noun (pl. same or shrimps)

1 (pl. same or shrimps) a small free-swimming, typically marine edible crustacean with ten legs. [Pandalus, Crangon, and other genera.]

2 informal, derogatory a small, physically weak person.

▶verb fish for shrimps.

– derivatives
shrimper noun.

– origin ME: prob. rel. to Mid. Low Ger. schrempen ‘to wrinkle’, Mid. High Ger. schrimpfen ‘to contract’, also to scrimp.

'shrimp' also found in these Oxford entries:

branchiopod - brine shrimp - decapod - fairy shrimp - krill - opossum shrimp - prawn - scrimp - shrimp plant - tiger prawn

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