1. [noun] 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.
2. [noun] (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
3. [noun] (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
4. [verb] (intransitive) To fish for shrimp.
5. [verb] To contract; to shrink.
6. [noun] (soccer) A player, supporter or other person connected with Morecambe Football Club.
7. [noun] Disparaging terms for small people.
8. [noun] Any of various edible decapod crustaceans.
9. [noun] Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible.
10. [verb] Fish for shrimp.