shrimper

[ shrim-per ]

noun

1. a shrimp fisherman.
2. a boat used for shrimping.
3. Informal. a shrimp.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shrimper¹

First recorded in 1850–55; shrimp + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“I remember going out with a shrimper after Katrina, a real Bubba Gump moment,” Severson says.

From The Daily Beast

AS she wedded some gigantic shrimper, That sweet mite with whom I loved to play?

From Project Gutenberg

He was evidently a fisherman or a shrimper, and his movements had all the strangeness of some long-legged aquatic bird.

From Project Gutenberg

There was no sign of human life to be seen; no boat, or distant sail, or near shrimper.

From Project Gutenberg

One told what the longshore shrimper had said of finding the body near the fishing-ground known as the Mooragh.

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