shrimp 
1. disparaging terms for small people • Syn: runt, peewee, half-pint • Derivationally related forms: shrimpy, runty (for: runt) • Hypernyms: small person 2. any of various edible decapod crustaceans • Syn: prawn • Derivationally related forms: prawn (for: prawn) • Hypernyms: seafood • Hyponyms: river prawn • Substance Holonyms: shrimp cocktail 3. small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible • Hypernyms: decapod crustacean, decapod • Hyponyms: snapping shrimp, pistol shrimp • Member Holonyms: Crangonidae, family Crangonidae • Part Meronyms: swimmeret, pleopod, prawn
fish for shrimp • Derivationally related forms: shrimper • Hypernyms: fish • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - In the summer they like to go out and shrimp
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