# lobster
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster).
Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop +‎ -ster.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlɒb.stə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈlɑb.stɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒbstə(ɹ)

### Adjective

lobster (comparative more lobster, superlative most lobster)
* Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
    Synonym: red as a lobster

### Noun

lobster (countable and uncountable, plural lobsters)
* 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.
** 1991, Markus Grosskopf, "Shit and Lobster", Helloween, Pink Bubbles Go Ape.
    Some get shit and some get lobster
* Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
** 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.
** A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
** A squat lobster.
* (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
** 1912, Ralph Davol, Two Men of Taunton: In the Course of Human Events, 1731-1829, page 214:[…] 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, […]
* (slang) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

#### Synonyms

* (British soldier): lobsterback, redcoat

#### Hyponyms

* (crustacean in Palinuridae): cray, langouste, spiny lobster, rock lobster

#### Derived terms

* American lobster (Homarus americanus)
* Andaman lobster (Metanephrops andamanicus)
* Arafura lobster (Metanephrops arafurensis)
* Bermuda lobster (Panulirus argus)
* bight lobster (Metanephrops boschmai)
* blue lobster (Procambarus alleni)
* California lobster (Panulirus interruptus)
* Cape lobster (Homarinus capensis)
* Caribbean lobster (Metanephrops binghami)
* China lobster (Metanephrops sinensis)
* clawed lobster
* common lobster
* European lobster (Homarus gammarus)
* fan lobster (Ibacinae spp.)
* Formosa lobster
* furry lobster (Palinurellus spp.)
* globster
* Japanese lobster (Metanephrops japonicus)
* lobsterback
* lobster box
* lobster caterpillar (Stauropus alternus)
* lobster clasp
* lobster claw
* lobsterer
* lobsterette
* lobsterish
* lobsterlike
* lobsterling
* lobster louse Nicothoe astaci)
* lobsterman
* lobster moth (Stauropus alternus)
* lobster mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum)
* lobster Newberg
* lobster palace
* lobster pot
* lobster pound
* lobster prominent
* lobster roll
* lobster sauce
* lobster scorpion (Heterometrus swammerdami)
* lobster shift
* lobster sloop
* lobster-tailed pot
* lobster-tail pot
* lobster thermidor
* lobster trap
* lobsterwoman
* lobstery
* Maine lobster (Homarus americanus)
* (Metanephrops formosanus)
* mitten lobster (Parribacus spp.))
* mole lobster (Palinurellus wieneckii)
* mud lobster
* Neptune lobster (Metanephrops neptunus)
* New Zealand lobster (Metanephrops challengeri)
* northwest lobster (Metanephrops australiensis)
* Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)
* raw lobster
* reef lobster (Enoplometopus spp.)
* rock lobster (Palinuridae)
* scorpion lobster
* sculpted lobster (Metanephrops sagamiensis)
* Siboga lobster (Metanephrops sibogae)
* slipper lobster (Scyllaridae)
* spiny lobster (Palinuridae)
* squat lobster (Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea)
* the world is one's lobster
* tree lobster
* true lobster (Homarus americanus)
* unboiled lobster
* velvet lobster (Metanephrops velutinus)
* white lobster

#### See also

* crawfish
* crayfish
* mudbug
* prawn
* shrimp
* yabby
* lobster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Verb

lobster (third-person singular simple present lobsters, present participle lobstering, simple past and past participle lobstered)
* To fish for lobsters.
* (Internet slang) To trick someone into viewing a picture of a blue lobster accompanied by an excerpt of Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* trobles, Bolster, Strobel, Bolters, Stroble, Bortles, rebolts, bolters, orblets, reblots, bolster