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Shrimp

noun

Disparaging terms for small people. Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, runt.

Any of various edible decapod crustaceans. Synonym: prawn.

Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible.

verb

Fish for shrimp.

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... winter in San Francisco deeply refreshed. It has its paradoxes like the rest of California. On a stark little peninsula, jutting out from bare hills into the Bay, is San Quentin, one of the State's Prisons, and along the edges of the marsh are Chinese hamlets and shrimp fisheries. ...

— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... darned little shrimp; get a move on you," growled the big man from within the frost-fringed ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... of a worm. No doubt it is really a case of degeneration from the acquirement of fixed habits, just as when a lively young crustacean larva gives up its free independent life and glues its head to a stone—what happens? Why, he becomes a mere barnacle instead of a spritely shrimp as he might have been! Let ...

— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

... he was a moral prig," Haythorne blurted out, with apparently undue warmth. "He was a little scholastic shrimp without a drop of ...

— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... Bradish was no shrimp of an adversary; he was taller than his antagonist, and handled his fists like a man who had been trained ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

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