Lobster
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood. countable, uncountable
- 2 any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae wordnet
- 3 Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:; A spiny lobster, also called the rock lobster, a crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood. countable, uncountable
- 4 flesh of a lobster wordnet
- 5 Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:; A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae). countable, uncountable
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- 6 Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:; A squat lobster. countable, uncountable
- 7 A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform). countable, historical, slang, uncountable
"[…] how the troops came marching out for evening exercise under Captain Preston; how pedestrians and street urchins taunted them, shouting "Lobsters," "Bloody-backs," and flinging snow-balls, turnips, […]"
- 8 An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour. countable, slang, uncountable
- 1 To fish for lobsters.
- 1 Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
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More examples"Have some frozen lobster at any rate."
Etymology
From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster). Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster.