shrimper
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- noun
- /ˈʃrɪmpər/
:
camarónero
- The median ages of the Calcasieu Lake and Galveston Bay shrimpers were 39.4 and 47, respectively.
- inshore shrimpers
- commercial shrimpers
- offshore shrimpers
Examples
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Can I be a shrimper when I grow up?
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Like the Calcasieu Lake population, most Galveston Bay shrimpers (48 percent) were previously employed in skilled manual labor jobs.
Academic text (1991) -
You can be a shrimper like me.
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Both men were appalled by what the shrimpers were doing.
Academic text (2007) -
Forrest pays an old black shrimper a large wad of cash.
Fiction book (1994) -
Beginning in 1979, shrimpers began to take steps to be more fuel-efficient.
Academic text (1997) -
Birdie lived in a common-law marriage with a shrimper named Dezell.
Fiction book (1999) -
Texas commercial shrimpers may hold any combination of three licenses: Bay, bait, or Gulf.
Academic text (1991) -
The results suggest that the inshore fisheries (i.e., shrimpers and shrimp houses) are distinct from the offshore fisheries.
Academic text (1991) -
In 2016, North Carolina shrimpers harvested a record 13.2 million pounds of shrimp for the market.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word shrimper comes from shrimp plus the ending -er, where -er means 'one who does', just like baker is one who bakes, so a shrimper is a person who catches shrimp.