Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An unidentified organic mass which has washed up on a beach.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Coined in 1962 by Ivan T. Sanderson, presumably a blend of glob and lobster.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word globster.

Examples

  • Basically, a globster is a blobby-looking, unidentifiable carcass that has washed up on a shore somewhere.

    mental_floss Blog 2009

  • When I saw that headline, I first thought "globster".

    Misheard Today K. A. Laity 2007

  • The cryptids I most like to read about are sea serpents, giant octopi (such as the Lusca, St. Augustine globster, etc.), the Mongolian death worm, Mokele Mbembe, Kongamato, Megalania, the Almas and the Thylacine.

    Cryptomundo 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • "Rotting whales that have been identified from elsewhere in the world show us that floating carcasses can drop their bones and eventually look like amorphous, misshapen lumps of goo (often dubbed globsters, a term invented by Ivan Sanderson). They can definitely become distorted to create the impression of a long neck, as verified by a photo of another beaked whale carcass published by Dinsdale (1966)."

    - Darren Naish, 'Santa Cruz's duck-billed elephant monster', scienceblogs.com, 8 July 2008.

    August 5, 2008

  • I doubt Melville would have approved.

    August 5, 2008