shrimper

/ʃɹˈɪmpɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English

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noun

noun

"Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets."
"On Monday, Mr. Luong, a Vietnamese immigrant who has been working in Bayou La Batre as a shrimper, and his wife, Ngoc Phan, 23, contacted the police to report that their children were missing, Chief Joyner said."

From shrimp + -er.

shrimpers (plural)

whimper simper

Questions

How do you pronounce shrimper?

The recorded pronunciation is /ʃɹˈɪmpɚ/.

What does shrimper mean?

One who fishes for or catches shrimp.

Where does shrimper come from?

From shrimp + -er.

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