lobster

[US]/'lɒbstə/
[UK]/'lɑbstɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a type of marine crustacean
v. catch lobsters

Phrases & Collocations

lobster sauce

Example Sentences

a lobster dinner; lobster boats.

make the sauce while the lobsters are boiling.

lobster Newburg; seafood Newburg.

lobster mould with a sauce of carrots and port.

In the small towns on the coast, lobsters are two a penny.

Butter Poached Lobster on a Butternut Squash/Sage Ravioli, Lobster Truffle Beurre Fondue, Celery Root &Apple Salad.

warm the whisky slightly, pour over the lobster, and flame it.

a man with big, prominent eyes like a lobster's.

I like lobster but it does not like me.

In my family, a good quality American meal starts with a fresh' green salad with homemade vinai-grette sauce followed by lobster bisque.

Most of the time, she can be found lobstering with her dad working in the stern. Each season has its own story to tell.

diced lobster mixed with Mornay sauce placed back in the shell and sprinkled with grated cheese and browned.

And their foods —baked Alaska, lobster Newburg, chicken cacciatore —why, these were dishes we didn't even dream of, much less encounter, in Iowa.

" Water flees fleas" are not insects but copepods, a crustation crustacean like lubster lobsters and crubs crabs but extremely small.

Serving &Food Match Suggestion: Essentially a fine-food wine, with caviar, snails, carpaccio, paté, crayfish (Cape rock lobster), prawns, langoustine, mussels, perlemoen (abalone) and creamy cheese.

Real-world Examples

Actually, Daddy, Ross is allergic to lobster.

Source: Friends Season 3

He looks like a little boiled lobster.

Source: American Elementary School English 5

The service was dreadful. The lobster was inedible.

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 3

Next enjoy lots of fresh lobster, pickled herring, salmon and char.

Source: Travel around the world

I think I'll have the lobster. What are you going to have?

Source: Intermediate Daily Conversation

We even had some money left over to buy some lobsters and wine.

Source: A bet.

Candace, why don't we start putting that lobster in your mouth right now?

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 6

The tiny fishing town is a great place to enjoy Maine lobster—in many forms.

Source: National Parks of the United States

Rach. OK, forget, forget the lobsters OK. We're, let's talk, what about us?

Source: Friends Season 2

I don't let no gentleman touch me what ain't bought me lobster first.

Source: Deadly Women

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