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shrimp

noun as in pipsqueak

noun as in runt

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The group spent about $320 on the meal, including green beans, ribs, fried rice, shrimp dumplings, dessert dumplings and drinks.

Some decapods, like lobsters and shrimp, have a thick cylindrical abdomen with a muscular tail for snapping backwards at high speed and burrowing on the seabed.

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Steve Smith, a 65-year-old former police officer from Colorado, has reduced his grocery bill by buying more shrimp instead of salmon and purchasing burger meat instead of rib-eye steaks.

The tariffs are a hammer blow for India’s biggest exporters, including apparel manufacturers, furniture makers, shrimp farms and diamond traders.

My late grandmother, in particular, had a predictable, beloved spread: shrimp cocktail with horseradish-laced sauce; the supermarket veggie platter with ranch; crockpot meatballs simmered in barbecue sauce and grape jelly; salsa with Tostito’s scoops.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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