lobster

Definitions


[ˈlɒbstə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a large marine crustacean with a cylindrical body, stalked eyes, and the first of its five pairs of limbs modified as pincers


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Origin:
Old English lopustre, alteration of Latin locusta ‘crustacean, locust’


[ˈlɒbstə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- catch lobsters
(e.g: he has been lobstering in Maine for 50 years)


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Origin:
Old English lopustre, alteration of Latin locusta ‘crustacean, locust’




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