Lobster

Definitions

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.
   countable, uncountable
2. Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
   countable, uncountable
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable
4. A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
   countable, uncountable
5. A squat lobster.
   countable, uncountable
6. A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
   countable, historical, slang, uncountable
7. An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
   countable, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] 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, […]”

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