Synonyms for shrimp
ʃrɪmpshrimp

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1. shrimpnoun

   Synonyms:
   prawn

2. shrimpnoun

   to fish for shrimp

   Synonyms:
   prawn

3. shrimpnoun

   the flesh of the crustaceans

   Synonyms:
   prawn

4. shrimpnoun

   a small, puny or unimportant person

   Synonyms:
   prawn

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1. runt, shrimp, peewee, half-pintnoun

   disparaging terms for small people

   Synonyms:
   runt, prawn, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee, half-pint, pewit

2. prawn, shrimpnoun

   any of various edible decapod crustaceans

   Synonyms:
   peewee, prawn, half-pint, runt

3. shrimpverb

   small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

   Synonyms:
   peewee, prawn, half-pint, runt

4. shrimpverb

   fish for shrimp

Matched Categories

1. • Fish
   • Seafood

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1. List of paraphrases for "shrimp":

   shrimps, prawn, crevette, squirt

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1. Chief Executive Adirek Sripratak:

   The situation of the EMS disease should recover during summer in the second quarter. As the weather is hotter, the rate of survival for baby shrimp will be higher.

2. Juan Mayorga:

   It has made a tremendous impact on the world's oceans, for each kilogram of shrimp, you could get up to 25 kilograms of incidental catch... There's no such thing as a selective bottom trawl.

3. Somsak Piriyayota:

   We have a government policy to reclaim forests - from investors, but not from poor people. With shrimp farmers, it's generally investors.

4. Sammy De Grave:

   I have been listening to Floyd since 'The Wall' was released in 1979, when I was 14 years old, the description of this new species of pistol shrimp was the perfect opportunity to finally give a nod to my favorite band.

5. Shyla Raghav:

   Shrimp farming is the largest driver of mangrove deforestation.