lobster
English
Etymology
From Middle English lopster, from Old English loppestre (“lobster, spider-like creature”), believed to be a corruption of Latin locusta (“lobster, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre; or from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster. More at lop.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɒb.stə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑb.stɚ/
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Noun
lobster (countable and uncountable, plural lobsters)
- 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.
- 1991, Markus Grosskopf, "Shit and Lobster", Helloween, Pink Bubbles Go Ape.
- Some get shit and some get lobster
- 1991, Markus Grosskopf, "Shit and Lobster", Helloween, Pink Bubbles Go Ape.
- A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
- (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
- (slang) An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
Synonyms
- (British soldier) lobsterback, redcoat
Hyponyms
- (crustacean in Palinuridae): cray, langouste, spiny lobster, rock lobster
Derived terms
- (Metanephrops formosanus)
- American lobster (Homarus americanus)
- Andaman lobster (Metanephrops andamanicus)
- Arafura lobster (Metanephrops arafurensis)
- Bermuda lobster (Panulirus argus)
- bight lobster (Metanephrops boschmai)
- blue lobster (Procambarus alleni)
- California lobster (Panulirus interruptus)
- Cape lobster (Homarinus capensis)
- Caribbean lobster (Metanephrops binghami)
- China lobster (Metanephrops sinensis)
- clawed lobster
- European lobster (Homarus gammarus)
- Formosa lobster
- furry lobster (Palinurellus spp.)
- globster
- Japanese lobster (Metanephrops japonicus)
- lobsterback
- lobster caterpillar (Stauropus alternus)
- lobsterer
- lobsterette
- lobsterish
- lobsterlike
- lobster louse Nicothoe astaci)
- lobsterman
- lobster moth (Stauropus alternus)
- lobster mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum)
- lobster pot
- lobster pound
- lobster scorpion (Heterometrus swammerdami)
- lobster shift
- lobster thermidor
- lobstery
- mole lobster (Palinurellus wieneckii)
- Neptune lobster (Metanephrops neptunus)
- New Zealand lobster (Metanephrops challengeri)
- northwest lobster (Metanephrops australiensis)
- Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)
- reef lobster (Enoplometopus spp.)
- rock lobster (Palinuridae)
- sculpted lobster (Metanephrops sagamiensis)
- Siboga lobster (Metanephrops sibogae)
- slipper lobster (Scyllaridae)
- spiny lobster (Palinuridae)
- squat lobster (Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea)
- true lobster (Homarus americanus)
- velvet lobster (Metanephrops velutinus)
Translations
crustacean
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Verb
lobster (third-person singular simple present lobsters, present participle lobstering, simple past and past participle lobstered)
- To fish for lobsters.
Translations
To fish for lobsters
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