Jonathan is a shrimpy little guy with surprisingly strong muscles (which make his arms look like an orange on a stick) and short stubby legs (which can run at an unusually fast speed).
One of the boys, a shrimpy little kid, was closer to the ground and faster than the rest of us.
The shrimpy eight-ounce cans drain your wallet more so than they drain your thirst.
But when the humpbacks are rounding up krill - small, shrimpy crustaceans - the net may be as small as five feet across.
I was a shrimpy, insecure city kid when I first went to camp.
Definition of shrimpy in US English:
shrimpy
adjective
See shrimp
Example sentencesExamples
Jonathan is a shrimpy little guy with surprisingly strong muscles (which make his arms look like an orange on a stick) and short stubby legs (which can run at an unusually fast speed).
One of the boys, a shrimpy little kid, was closer to the ground and faster than the rest of us.
But when the humpbacks are rounding up krill - small, shrimpy crustaceans - the net may be as small as five feet across.
The shrimpy eight-ounce cans drain your wallet more so than they drain your thirst.
I was a shrimpy, insecure city kid when I first went to camp.