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
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Adjective
lobster (comparative more lobster, superlative most lobster)
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
- American lobster (Homarus americanus)
- Andaman lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Arafura lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Bermuda lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- bight lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- blue lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- California lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Cape lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Caribbean lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- China lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- clawed lobster
- European lobster (Homarus gammarus)
- Formosa lobster
- furry lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. spp.)
- globster
- Japanese lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- lobsterback
- lobster caterpillar (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- lobsterer
- lobsterette
- lobsterish
- lobsterlike
- lobster louse Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- lobsterman
- lobster moth(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- lobster pot
- lobster pound
- lobster scorpion (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- lobster shift
- lobster thermidor
- lobstery
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- Maine lobster (Homarus americanus)
- mole lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Neptune lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- New Zealand lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- northwest lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)
- reef lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. spp.)
- rock lobster (Palinuridae)
- sculpted lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Siboga lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- slipper lobster (Scyllaridae)
- spiny lobster (Palinuridae)
- squat lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. and Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- true lobster (Homarus americanus)
- velvet lobster (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
Translations
crustacean
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See also
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
Anagrams
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