shrimper
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- noun
- /ˈshrɪmpər/
- With everybody drunk most of the time on those anchored shrimpers, he figured they didn't keep very close tabs on what they ate anyway.
- shrimper's boat
Examples
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And ran that shrimper into the breakwater?
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A shrimper had run across the Prancer, drifting some eight miles south of the islands.
Fiction book (1997) -
He's going to work on a shrimper, if I understand correctly.
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You know, after we win this war, and we take over everything, we can get American shrimpers to come out here and shrimp these waters.
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A shrimper's boat stood offshore with its nets down.
Fiction book (1993) -
It was a 15-foot one, though commercial shrimpers typically use something larger.
Blog text (9) -
I ONCE WORKED ON A SHRIMPER LIKE THIS.
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The Galveston Bay shrimpers were more opinionated, but even so only 45 percent expressed an opinion regarding the Texas closure.
Academic text (1991) -
The shrimper sailed out early in the morning to catch fresh shrimp for the market.
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Workers on the shrimper unloaded their catch at the dock to sell to local restaurants.
Synonyms
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People who catch or farm shrimp and the boats they use
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Etymology
The word shrimper can also mean a boat used for catching shrimp. It comes from the same parts shrimp + -er, and many fishing boats are named for what they catch, so a shrimper is a boat that catches shrimp, like a trawler that catches fish.