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lobster
English
Etymology
From Middle English lopster, from Old English loppestre (“lobster, spider-like creature”), believed to be a corruption of Latin locusta (“lobster, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre.
Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop +? -ster.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l?b.st?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?b.st?/
- Rhymes: -?bst?(?)
Adjective
lobster (comparative more lobster, superlative most lobster)
- red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
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.
- 1991, Markus Grosskopf, "Shit and Lobster", Helloween, Pink Bubbles Go Ape.
- A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
- (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
- (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
Translations
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.
Translations
Anagrams
- Bolster, Bortles, Strobel, Stroble, bolster, bolters, reblots, rebolts, trobles
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mickey
English
Etymology
- (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
- (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?ki/
- Rhymes: -?ki
Noun
mickey (plural mickeys)
- (chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. [from the 1910s]
- (US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. [from the 1930s]
- (US, slang, dated, Depression Era) A potato. [from the 1930s]
- (chiefly Ireland, informal) The penis. [from the 1900s]
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) The vagina. [from the early 1900s]
- (Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia. [from the 1910s]
- (rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild. [from the 1870s]
- (Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
- (computing) The resolution of a mouse: the smallest measurable distance it can move the cursor, used as a unit of length.
Verb
mickey (third-person singular simple present mickeys, present participle mickeying, simple past and past participle mickeyed)
- To secretly slip drugs into somebody's drink.
Derived terms
- Texas mickey
Related terms
- See take the mickey
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