lobsters

Noun

lobster (countable and uncountable, plural lobsters)

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.
2. 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.
3. A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
4. A squat lobster.
5. (historical, slang) A 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

6. (slang) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

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