lobster

plural lobsters

1. countableuncountableA 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.
2. Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
   1. countableuncountableA 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.
   2. countableuncountableA slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
   3. countableuncountableA squat lobster.
3. countablehistoricalslanguncountableA soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).

   […] 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, […]

   1912, Ralph Davol, Two Men of Taunton: In the Course of Human Events, 1731-1829, page 214

   Synonyms: lobsterback, redcoat

4. countableslanguncountableAn Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

present singular third person lobsters · participle present lobstering · participle past lobstered · past lobstered

1. To fish for lobsters.

comparative more lobster · superlative most lobster

1. Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

   Synonyms: red as a lobster