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srimp

srimp is the pronunciation spelling of shrimp.

Meaning of shrimp

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
  5. (derogatory, figuratively, slang) A small penis.
    • shrimp dick
    Synonyms:
    baby carrot, baby cock, baby dick, dicklet, dickling, dicklit, clit, clitty, microdick, micropenis

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Forms of srimp

pluralsrimp
pluralsrimps

Questions about srimp

What is srimp the pronunciation spelling of?
Srimp is the pronunciation spelling of shrimp.

Words near srimp in the dictionary

  1. Srijna
  2. Srikakulam
  3. Srikalahasti
  4. srilankite
  5. Srimati
  6. srimp
  7. srimpi
  8. srimpis
  9. srimps
  10. Srimukha
  11. Srinagar

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