shrimp

shrimp is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To contract; to shrink. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To contract; to shrink.
2. verb. 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. verb. In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
4. verb. 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. verb. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
6. noun. small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
7. noun. any of various edible decapod crustaceans

   Synonyms: prawn

8. noun. disparaging terms for small people

   Synonyms: peewee, runt

9. verb. fish for shrimp

Synonyms

prawn, peewee, runt

Common word forms

shrimps, shrimped, shrimper, shrimping

Words from these letters

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