April 12, 2024
" Lobster " - "Why don't you write?" - UDB
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" Lobster " - "Why don't you write?": According to Urban Slang a "lobster" is the person with whom you are supposed to be for the rest of your life. This meaning was popularized in an episode of the hit TV shows "Friends": .....Phoebe: (in reference to Ross and Rachel) hang in there, it's gonna happen/ .....Ross: Okay, now how do you know that? .....Phoebe: Because she's your lobster.. come on your guys, it's a known fact that lobsters fall in love and mate for life. ... you can actually see old lobster couples walking around their tank holding claws. There is an older meaning given over to calling someone a "lobster," as this Undivded Back Era (1901-07) postcard does. From an August 2, 1911 article in the San Francisco Call: "According to the latest edition of Webster's dictionary, one meaning of "lobster" is "a gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable fellow." This meaning is supposed by most persons to be a modern development of slang. However, "lobster*? Was a favorite term of abuse among Englishmen of Queen Elizabeth's day. Some students think it probably was applied first to men with red faces. As signifying a soldier the term "lobster" is as old as Cromwell's day. Lord Clarendon, historian of the civil war in England, explains that it was applied to the roundhead cuirassiers "because of the bright iron shells with which
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