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noun

Lobster n. (Zool.)

Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (Homarus Americanus), and the European lobster (Homarus vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.

As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person. (Slang)

Lobster caterpillar (Zool.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth (Stauropus fagi); so called from its form.

Lobster louse (Zool.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoe astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.

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"Lobster" Quotes from Famous Books

... like a row o' stalls to sprawl your dirty carcase on?... Outside, I tell yer, Tommy Atkins, this ain't a music-'all nor yet a pub. Soldiers not ''alf-price to cheap seats' nor yet full-price—nor yet for ten pound a time. Out yer go, lobster." ...

— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... has few natural resources, and the economy depends heavily on luxury tourism, offshore banking, lobster fishing, and remittances from emigrants. The economy, and especially the tourism sector, suffered a setback in late 1995 due to the effects of Hurricane Luis in September but recovered in 1996. Increased activity in the tourism industry, ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... anxious, but the distance was diminishing; Harry was almost at the steps with the child, and the boy had rowed his skiff round the breakwater out of sight; a young fisherman leaned over the railing with his back to her, watching the lobster-catchers on the other side. She was almost in; it was only a slight dizziness, yet she could not see the light-house. Concentrating all her efforts, she shut her eyes and swam on, her arms still unaccountably vigorous, though the rest of her body seemed ...

— Malbone - An Oldport Romance • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... and ask what such a room is called ... write it down; admire a cabbage or a lobster in a market piece (picture?); dispute as to whether the last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the inn for fear ...

— Dickens' London • Francis Miltoun

... of all get your small income, then purchase this book, for eighteenpence, or less with discount; or (a shorter and a cheaper way) borrow it from a friend. Let the Small Incomer cast his watery eye over Lobster cutlets, p. 19, and Lobster pancakes: let him reduce his small income to something still smaller in order to treat himself and family to a Rumpsteak a la bonne bouche, a Sausage pudding, and a Tomato curry. The sign ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, September 6, 1890 • Various

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