🦞 A sea animal 🍽️ Seafood meat 🦞 To catch lobsters

to lobster

1 5.6

To catch large sea animals with hard shells and big claws, usually using traps

verb
/ˈlɑːbstər/

: pescar langostas

While it was true that Mr. Bates spent his daylight hours by himself lobstering or tending traps, he was attentive as soon as he returned.

Examples

I'm going lobstering soon for a shoot, and I've been dreaming about being on that boat, soaking it in with all my senses.

Blog text (20)
Mike wasn't interested in lobstering, but sometimes he thought about being an oceanographer.

Fiction book (1999)
Lobstering in winter was hazardous.

Fiction book (1999)
Dolly's brothers, a couple of little kids in first and second grade, one or two older boys already lobstering for a living.

Fiction book (1990)
He was always lobstering. "Everyone here remembers him," Mike said.

Fiction book (1999)
Lobstering methods!

Academic text (1990)
Dad, eschewing all oils and lotions, was lobstered.

Fiction book (2001)
Many fishermen go lobstering to provide fresh seafood to local restaurants.
During the summer, we often spend weekends lobstering off the coast with our friends.
He loves lobstering because it allows him to work outdoors in the beautiful ocean.

Synonyms

to fish

vsto lobster

119 1.0

To catch fish for sport or food

focuses on one species caught regularly often using traps at sea

to shrimp

vsto lobster

4 5.3

To catch small sea animals with a long body for food, often from a boat

focuses on larger crustacean caught regularly with traps at sea

to clam

vsto lobster

2 7.5

To dig in sand to collect clams

focuses on trap fishing at sea rather than shore digging

to squid

vsto lobster

1 8.9

To fish for sea animals with ten arms often at night

is specific to regular trap use for one species not general catching

to crab

vsto lobster

1 5.5

To catch sea animals with flat shells for food using nets or traps

focuses on a single crustacean often taken with baited sea traps

to oyster

vsto lobster

9.2

To collect sea animals with rough shells from the sea or shore

focuses on a trap-based sea catch rather than shore gathering

to turtle

vsto lobster

Archaic

9.6

To hunt for turtles as a job

focuses on trap-based routine seafood harvest rather than hunting reptiles

Idioms

world is one's lobster

Informal

9.9

A joking way to say many chances lie ahead

Compounds

lobster tail

7 3.3

The tail meat of a lobster that people eat

Maine lobster

1 3.4

A large lobster with sweet, tender meat found off Maine's coast

lobster thermidor

1 9.9

A rich dish of lobster mixed with cheese sauce and browned in its shell

lobster Newburg

1 7.8

A rich dish of lobster in a creamy sauce on buttered toast or rice

lobster pot

1 3.5

A basket placed in the sea to catch lobsters

lobster stew

1 3.4

A hot creamy soup made with pieces of lobster

rock lobster

Australian

1 3.8

A large sea animal with a spiny shell and no big claws eaten as food

spiny lobster

1 4.2

A large sea animal with a spiny shell and no big claws, often eaten in warm seas

Cape lobster

South African

9.3

A small lobster from the coastal waters near the Cape of Good Hope

American lobster

3.7

A large sea animal with big claws that lives on North America's Atlantic coast

American lobster

3.3

Meat from a large lobster that has big tender claws

European lobster

6.5

Sea animal with a dark blue shell and big claws found off Europe's Atlantic coast that turns red when cooked

lobster tart

6.7

A pastry shell filled with cooked lobster often served as a starter

lobster worker

3.0

A person who catches lobsters for sale

lobster à la Newburg

9.9

A dish of lobster cooked in a rich cream sauce and served on toast or rice

lobster butter

7.0

A type of butter that chefs mix with chopped lobster or lobster flavor to spread on food

lobster plant

9.9

A tropical plant from the Americas with poisonous white sap and bright red parts around small yellow flowers

Maine lobster

2.6

The meat from a large lobster, often the tender claw meat

Northern lobster

3.2

A large edible lobster from the Atlantic coast of North America or its meat

Norway lobster

6.8

A small lobster-like sea animal that people eat for its meat

Norwegian lobster

6.6

A slender sea animal with claws found in European waters and eaten as food

true lobster

5.4

A large sea animal with two big claws that people eat

Surface Forms

lobster infinitive

lobstered past

lobstered past participle

lobstering present participle

lobsters third person singular

Etymology

Lobster used as a verb meaning 'to catch lobsters' comes from the animal name, which itself comes from Latin locusta, meaning 'locust'. So to 'lobster' is simply to go after that 'sea locust' and catch it.