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raw lobster

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Noun

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raw lobster (plural raw lobsters)

  1. (obsolete, slang) Synonym of unboiled lobster (“police officer”)
    • 1878, Charles Hindley, The life and times of James Catnach, page 206:
      […] comic writers […] have never failed to make capital out of the New Police, Peel's Raw-Lobsters, Peelers, Blue Bottles, &c., &c.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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