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lobstering

Variant of lobster

noun pl. lobsters or lobster

  1. any of various families (esp. Nephropidae) of marine, bottom-dwelling decapods with compound eyes, long antennae, and usually the first pair of legs modified into large, powerful pincers: lobsters are greenish or dark gray in color when alive, but turn bright red when boiled
  2. the flesh of these animals used as food

intransitive verb

to fish for lobsters

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