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1
a living thing much smaller than others of its kind
- the boy was just a shrimp until his teens, when he had a growth spurt
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2
a person of no importance or influence
- you have no business telling me what to do, you little shrimp!
Synonyms for shrimp
- cipher,
- dwarf,
- half-pint,
- insect,
- insignificancy,
- lightweight,
- morsel,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- number,
- pip-squeak,
- pygmy
- (also pigmy),
- snippersnapper,
- twerp,
- whippersnapper,
- zero,
- zilch
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“Shrimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrimp. Accessed 17 Sep. 2021.
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