Usually means: Sea creature with claws, edible.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lobster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lobster: Merriam-Webster
  3. lobster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lobster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lobster: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lobster, lobster: Wordnik
  7. lobster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lobster: Wiktionary
  9. lobster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lobster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lobster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lobster, lobster: Dictionary.com
  13. lobster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lobster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lobster (disambiguation), Lobster (food), Lobster (magazine), Lobster (novel), Lobster, The Lobster (film), The Lobster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lobster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lobster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lobster: Rhymezone
  19. Lobster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lobster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lobster: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lobster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lobster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. lobster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  25. lobster: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lobster: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lobster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lobster: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LOBSTER: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lobster: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Lobster: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lobster (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. lobster, lobster, lobster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. lobster: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. the lobster: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See lobstering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
noun:  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.
noun:  Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
noun:  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.
noun:  A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
noun:  A squat lobster.
noun:  (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
noun:  (slang) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
verb:  To fish for lobsters.
verb:  (Internet slang) To trick someone into viewing a picture of a blue lobster accompanied by an excerpt of Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

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