shrimps

Noun

shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural (UK) shrimp or (US) shrimps)

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.
   • Butter well a deep dish, upon which place a thick layer of pounded biscuit; having picked and boiled your shrimps, put them upon the biscuit; a layer of shrimps, with small pieces of butter, a little pepper, mace or nutmeg.1851, Sarah Rutledge, “A Lady of Charleston”, in The Carolina Housewife, published 2013, unnumbered page

   Synonyms:

   prawn

2. (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.

   Synonyms:

   prawn

3. (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
4. (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface

   Synonyms:

   prawn, biffer, boner-shrinker, bonerkiller, buttface, choad, frump, minger, monkey, monkeyface

5. (derogatory, figuratively, slang) A small penis.
   • shrimp dick

   Synonyms:

   baby carrot, baby cock, baby dick, dicklet, dickling, dicklit, clit, clitty, microdick, micropenis

   Antonyms:

   cunt buster, donkey cock, donkey dick, horse cock, horse dick, monster cock, monsterdick, supercock, superdick, superpenis

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