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.