chicken lobster

noun

a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.

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Nearby words

chicken fillet, chicken hawk, chicken kiev, chicken ladder, chicken little, chicken lobster, chicken louse, chicken mushroom, chicken out, chicken pox, chicken run

Origin of chicken lobster

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70

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