shrimps Definition

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; also : a small crustacean (such as an amphipod or a branchiopod) resembling the true shrimp

a very small or puny person or thing

to fish for or catch shrimp

any of a genus (Artemia) of branchiopod crustaceans that can exist in strongly saline environments

any of several very small translucent freshwater branchiopod crustaceans (order Anostraca)

stomatopod