Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Garnele, Shrimp, Krabbe

    креве́ткаkrevétka

    креве́ткаkrevétka

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

  2. (uncountable)The flesh of such crustaceans.

    any of various edible decapod crustaceans

  3. (countable, slang, uncountable)A small, puny or unimportant person.

  4. (countable, slang, uncommon, uncountable)Synonym of butterface

  5. (countable, derogatory, figuratively, slang, uncountable)A small penis.

    shrimp dick

    disparaging terms for small people

Examples

86 sentences
  1. My cat loves shrimp.

    Мій кіт любить креветки.

    ruМой кот любит креветки.

    deMeine Katze liebt Garnelen.

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  2. When was the last time you ate shrimp?

    ruКогда вы в последний раз ели креветки?

    deWann hast du das letzte Mal Garnelen gegessen?

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  3. I advised Tom not to eat the shrimp.

    ruЯ посоветовал Тому не есть креветки.

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  4. One of my favorite things to eat is shrimp.

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  5. Can I get the steak and shrimp dinner?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
decapod crustacean:
Русский
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decapod crustacean:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
decapod crustacean:

Origin

From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), possibly from or related to Middle L

From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), possibly from or related to Middle Low German schrempen (“to wrinkle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (“shrivelled”), from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrivel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbʰ-.

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