Meaning of Oyster | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
2. A surname.
3. The delicate oyster-shaped morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
4. A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
5. A person who keeps secrets.
   colloquial
6. Something at one's disposal.
   figuratively
7. A shoplifter.
   UK, slang
8. Ellipsis of Oyster card.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang

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Examples

“Piſt. Why then the world's mine Oyſter, which I, with ſword will open.”

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

“Cut remaining skin on back. Remove the oyster (choice dark meat in spoon-shaped bone on back) with the leg.”

“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”

“I will not be a human oyster. No, I will lay my cards on the table, which is assuredly a thing that oysters do not do.”

“He asked a major Chicago retailer with a large store in the heart of the city about the socioeconomic character of his customers. The man replied proudly that the entire range of economic classes was his oyster.”

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