lobsterback
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lobsterback
lobster + back 1; in reference to the red color of cooked lobsters
Example Sentences
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A drummer started beating time, and the Union Jack rose to the top of the flagpole, accompanied by whistles and shouts from the lobsterbacks and Loyalist New Yorkers, who took off their hats in respect.
From Literature
Troops were dispatched to overawe Boston, but the angry Bostonians hooted and hissed the "lobsterbacks," as the redcoats were derisively styled, and in 1770 provoked them to actual bloodshed—the so-called "Boston Massacre."
From Project Gutenberg
He was a mountain clothed in a lobsterback uniform.
From Literature
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