pistol shrimp

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   small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae

   Synonymssnapping shrimp

   Broadershrimp

Questions about pistol shrimp

What does pistol shrimp mean?

pistol shrimp means "small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae".

What is another word for pistol shrimp?

Close synonyms include snapping shrimp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pistol shrimp a common word?

pistol shrimp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.