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shrimps

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noun

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The correct spelling is shrimps. Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.

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noun

  1. 1.Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
  2. 2.The flesh of such crustaceans.
  3. 3.A small, puny or unimportant person.

verb

  1. 1.To fish for shrimp.
  2. 2.To contract; to shrink.

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