资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   2. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in
      contempt.

            This weak and writhled shrimp.        --Shak.

   {Opossum shrimp}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Opossum}.

   {Spector shrimp}, or {Skeleton shrimp} (Zo["o]l.), any
      slender amphipod crustacean of the genus {Caprella} and
      allied genera. See Illust. under {L[ae]modopoda}.

   {Shrimp catcher} (Zo["o]l.), the little tern ({Sterna
      minuta}).

   {Shrimp net}, a dredge net fixed upon a pole, or a sweep net
      dragged over the fishing ground.