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Is shrimp a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word shrimp is a Scrabble US word. The word shrimp is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is shrimp a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word shrimp is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

S1H4R1I1M3P3

Is shrimp a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word shrimp is a Words With Friends word. The word shrimp is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

SHRIMP,

5-letter words (2 found)

PRIMS,PRISM,

4-letter words (19 found)

HIMS,HIPS,IMPS,MIPS,MIRS,PHIS,PIRS,PISH,PRIM,RIMS,RIPS,RISP,SHIM,SHIP,SHIR,SHRI,SIMP,SMIR,SPIM,

3-letter words (18 found)

HIM,HIP,HIS,IMP,ISH,ISM,MIR,MIS,PHI,PIR,PIS,PSI,RIM,RIP,SIM,SIP,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (7 found)

HI,HM,IS,MI,PI,SH,SI,

You can make 47 words from shrimp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of shrimp

shrimp

Etymology

From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (“shrivelled”) (compare Middle High German schrimpf (“a scratch, minor wound”), Norwegian skramp (“thin horse, thin man”)), from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrivel”) (compare Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and scrimp, Middle High German schrimpfen (“to shrink, dry up”), Swedish skrympa (“to shrink”)), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb-, *skr̥mb- (compare Lithuanian skrembti (“to crust over, stiffen”), and possibly Albanian shkrumb (“embers, ashes; crumble”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɹɪmp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪmp

Noun

shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural shrimp or shrimps)

  1. 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.
    • 1851, "A Lady of Charleston" (Sarah Rutledge), The Carolina Housewife, 2013, unnumbered page,
      Butter well a deep dish, upon which place a thick layer of pounded biscuit; having picked and boiled your shrimps, put them upon the biscuit; a layer of shrimps, with small pieces of butter, a little pepper, mace or nutmeg.
  2. (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
  3. (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
  4. (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface: a person with an attractive body but unattractive face.

Synonyms

  • prawn (sometimes proscribed)

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Verb

shrimp (third-person singular simple present shrimps, present participle shrimping, simple past and past participle shrimped)

  1. (intransitive) To fish for shrimp.
  2. To contract; to shrink.

Derived terms

  • shrimper

Source: wiktionary.org