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• n  disparaging terms for small people
• n  any of various edible decapod crustaceans
• n  small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
• v  fish for shrimp

• Love shrimp cocktail? So do lots of others and that's the problem.
• A "Tuscan Shrimp Salad" bears only a notional relationship to Tuscany, where I have never seen the discordant, more-Asian-than-Italian marriage of almonds, shrimp, sun-dried .
• To the true Japanese gourmet, one of life's sweetest pleasures is savoring the dying wriggle of a freshly peeled live shrimp on the tongue.

• runt
• peewee
• half-pint
• prawn

News & Articles

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• Shrimp season begins off Ala. coast
  Shrimp season is open along the Alabama coast, but some waters remain off limits because the cool, wet spring made shrimp grow slower than normal. Officials said Wednesday that additional areas would be ...
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Shrimp season begins off Ala. coast; additional areas will open later as shrimp mature
  Shrimp season is open along the Alabama coast, but some waters remain off limits because the cool, wet spring made shrimp grow slower than normal.
  June 13, 2013 - Montgomery Advertiser
• Ala. Shrimp Season Now Open
  Shrimp season is open along the Alabama coast, but some waters remain off limits because the cool, wet spring made shrimp grow slower than normal.
  June 12, 2013 - WTVY Dothan

Quotes

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• Mitt Romney in Forbes
  You peel shrimp and shuck oysters,said Romney political consultant Warren Tompkins.
• Eric Lander in WRAL.com
  There's no time for recipes,says Lander, a 50-year-old scientist who worked on the Human Genome Project. "You're jockeying for burners, negotiating over shrimp. You draw on what you know."
• Jay Z in Monsters and Critics.com
  The 25-year-old star, who is dating rapper Jay-Z, said: "I love fried fish, fried shrimp and all different types of pasta. If it's fattening, I love it! The trouble is it goes to my sides, my hips and my butt real quick."