n.
 (pl. same or shrimps)
  (pl. same or shrimps)
 a small free-swimming, typically marine edible crustacean with ten legs. 
[Pandalus, Crangon, and other genera.]
- informal, derogatory a small, physically weak person.
 
v.
 fish for shrimps.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: prob. rel. to Mid. Low Ger. schrempen ‘to wrinkle’, Mid. High Ger. schrimpfen ‘to contract’, also to scrimp.