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# shrimp

«shrimp» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small sea animal with a shell, a long tail and many…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shrimp, shrimp or shrimps); verb (shrimp, shrimps, shrimped, shrimping — catch shrimps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shrimp is a small sea animal with a shell, a long tail and many legs; many are eaten as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#m1)

2) (informal, teasing) A shrimp is a very small person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#m2)

3) To shrimp is to catch shrimps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, shrimps are crustaceans, food for whales and fish. In everyday life, shrimp are cooked and eaten; in Australia «shrimp» is less used — they say «prawn». As a teasing name for a small child. Phrases: «shrimp cocktail», «go shrimping», «you little shrimp».

### examples

- We caught shrimps in a net at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#x1)
- Whales eat tiny shrimp-like krill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#x2)
- Dad cooked shrimp for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#x3)
- «Come here, you little shrimp!» laughed my big brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#x4)
- Some shrimps can change colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#x5)
- Shrimps belong to the same group as crabs and lobsters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#x6)
- ‘You wretched little shrimp,’ replied Hans, ‘a great deal of good your gratitude is likely to do me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/#x7)

### note

Plural: shrimp or shrimps (both used). In the UK and Australia, bigger ones are called prawns; in the USA, nearly all are called shrimp. Calling someone a shrimp is teasing about size.

### In the corpora

- [Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a little like squid ink but made of light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/12/)
- [Woodlice need damp places and hide under logs and stones; they are crustaceans, related to crabs and shrimps, not insects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/11/)
- [Flamingos get their pink from pigments in the shrimps and algae they eat; fed without those pigments, they slowly turn white.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shrimp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrimp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.