lobster
/ˈlɑb.stɚ/ noun A2- 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.
- 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.
- A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
- A squat lobster.
- A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
- An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
Plural lobsters
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Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.
There’s never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as you do get one broke into your ways and taught something he’s up and off to the lobster canneries or the States.
He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
The Lobster Quadrille
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