Crossword-Solution: SHRIMP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shrimp | v. t. | To contract; to shrink. |
| Shrimp | v. | 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. |
| Shrimp | v. | In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form. |
| Shrimp | v. | 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. |
| Shrimp | v. | Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SHRIMP (5)
Fishing fleets from the USSR, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan also exploit the Indian Ocean for mostly shrimp and tuna.
The fishing industries - notably the shrimp industry - are experiencing a series of bankruptcies and mergers.
Prospects for fisheries are not bright, as the important shrimp catches will at best stabilize and cod catches have dropped.
Between whiles they fish for shrimp, and I've heard Kitchell tell how they make pearls by dropping bird-shot into oysters.
Keola, you are a baby in my father’s hands; he will take you with his thumb and finger and eat you like a shrimp.” Now Keola was truly afraid of Kalamake, but he was vain too; and these words of his wife’s incensed him.
Quotes with SHRIMP (3)
For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.
But people, as Alan had once reflected to Greenie, were not at all like recipes. You could have all the right ingredients, in all the right amounts, and still there were no guarantees. Or perhaps they were like recipes, he pondered now, and the key to success was in finding the ingredients you had to remove, the components that turned all the others bitter, excessively salty, difficult to swallow; even too jarringly sweet. He had seen Greenie clarify butter, wash rice, devein…
When people have different ideas about which of these four modes of interacting applies to a current relationship, the result can range from blank incomprehension to acute discomfort or outright hostility. Think abut a dinner guest offering to pay the host for her meal, a person barking an order to a friend, or an employee helping himself to a shrimp off the boss' plate. Misunderstandings in which one person thinks of a transaction in terms of Equality Matching and another th…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 48 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).