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Lobster
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Meaning
Adj
●
In Money:
Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
Noun
●
In Astacideans, Decapods, Money & Seafood:
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.
●
In Astacideans & Decapods:
A
crustacean
of the Palinuridae family,
pinkish
red
in colour
, with a
hard
,
spiny
shell
but no
claws
, which is used as a seafood.
●
In Money:
A
soldier
or
officer
of the
imperial
British Army (due to their
red
or
scarlet
uniform).
●
An Australian
twenty
dollar
note
, due to its reddish-orange colour.
Verb
●
In Astacideans & Decapods:
To
fish
for lobsters.
●
To
trick
someone with a
blue
lobster
picture
and an
annoying
Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
lobster
English
lopster
Middle English (1100-1500)
loppeſtre
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
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Rhymes
Jobster
Bobster
Lobster
Mobster
Globster
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