shrimp:
(plural: ‘shrimps‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
Apart from the most common meaning of a kind of water animal, eaten as food…
a person small in size;
an unimportant person; a person with no value,
a shrimp looking up at his wife
e.g.
Though people call him a shrimp, Sam’s friends know that he’s as quick and strong as a shark when it comes to chasing his opponents.
According to Urban slang usage, a shrimp is a young woman who looks beautiful from the neck below, i.e. though her face is not beautiful, her body is attractive.
There have been many rich and famous people who despite being called shrimps proved that brains and guts are primary and physic is secondary in achieving success in business or life.
For a news article that shows us how we come across this word in reference to people, please click here and for an article in Wikipedia about a popular person being called a ‘shrimp’ for being small as a boy, please click here.
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