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  • noun Plural form of lobster.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lobster.

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Examples

  • lobsters” and its semantic value are more intimately related than ˜lobster™ and its semantic value, i.e., the relationship between “lobster” and ˜lobster™ is closer than that which obtains between ˜lobsters 'and lobsters.

    Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009

  • lobsters” and ˜lobsters™ is no closer than the relationship between ˜lobsters™ and lobsters.

    Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009

  • If I create a cartel to control the price of lobsters, is the relevant market “shellfish,” or “seafood,” or “food.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide 2010

  • Sandy MacHoots: If I create a cartel to control the price of lobsters, is the relevant market “shellfish,” or “seafood,” or “food.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide 2010

  • The ones in sight showed why the race had earned the nickname lobsters, and why no one called them that to their faces.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  •      “Remember when we ate things called lobsters?” she will say, and the couple locks a gaze inward and backward, and recall a date they had in Maine, at a little shack on the rocky coast, where they dipped chunks of white flesh into plastic cups of melted butter.

    Dig 2009

  •      “Remember when we ate things called lobsters?” she will say, and the couple locks a gaze inward and backward, and recall a date they had in Maine, at a little shack on the rocky coast, where they dipped chunks of white flesh into plastic cups of melted butter.

    Dig 2009

  • The lobsters are a bit demanding, but lobsters always are, we can cope….

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • The lobsters are a bit demanding, but lobsters always are, we can cope….

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • The lobsters are a bit demanding, but lobsters always are, we can cope….

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

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  • No definitions are available for lobsters.

    Glad I'm not a lobster.

    September 1, 2010

  • Some of my best meals were lobsters.

    September 2, 2010