SHRIMP

I. noun (plural ~s or ~) Etymology: Middle English ~e; akin to Middle Low German schrempen to contract, wrinkle, Old Norse skorpna to shrivel up Date: 14th century any of numerous mostly small and marine decapod crustaceans (suborders Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata) having a slender elongated body, a compressed abdomen, and a long spiny rostrum and including some (especially family Penaeidae) that are commercially important as food, a very small or puny person or thing, ~like adjective ~y adjective II. intransitive verb Date: 1808 to fish for or catch ~s