What is "shrimper"

Usage examples of "shrimper".

I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.

Out in the Gulf, to the west, there probably was a shrimper with a couple of lobster boats alongside, whose captains were being paid to have a raucous, suspicious-looking, but entirely innocent drink together.

Albury could now distinctly hear from the shrimper the sounds he had imagined before.

Then he spun around and drew down on the shrimper, who had frozen in awe while lining up the sixteen-ball for a corner.

They towed an oceangoing shrimper with engine trouble into Baton Rouge.

Selena always said he was part Houma, and that he had worked as a shrimper until he was killed in some kind of boat accident a couple of months before you were born.

His father was a shrimper, he told us, and he delighted in pointing out and naming each freshly painted, flower-festooned, and holy-water-sprinkled boat.

A battered, gallean shrimper was just putting in, its crew casting lines onto the dock.

Past the shrimper was a neat little boat, sleek of line as a porpoise, not too big, but with five masts in all.

When it did, it was usually a domestic quarrel or a bar fight among the shrimpers on Caroline Street.

Tee Bobby Hulin came through the front door and sat at the counter, within earshot of the shrimpers, some of whom must have recognized him as the man about to go on trial for the rape and murder of Amanda Boudreau.

The shrimpers looked blankly at both Tee Bobby and Legion, confused, unable to connect the indignation of the towering white man with a diminutive black musician who only a moment ago had been an object of contempt.

The shrimpers where glad to trade a few for the culinary delight of those in the park.

Carpenter had no idea what the other ships might be: seaweed collectors, shrimpers, squid-hunters, whatever.

Trappers, shrimpers, farmers, and off-shore oil workers congregated--talking, spitting, gesturing and laughing.