Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To contract; to shrink.
- 2verb
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.
- 3verb
In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
- 4verb
In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy Brine.
- 5verb
Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
- 6noun
small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- 7noun
any of various edible decapod crustaceans
Synonyms
- 8noun
disparaging terms for small people
- 9verb
fish for shrimp
Synonyms
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for SHRIMP lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.