Meaning

A female fisher for lobsters, Female equivalent of lobsterman..

Definitions by Sense

1. A female fisher for lobsters, Female equivalent of lobsterman.
2. (fiction) A female alien or monster that appears like a hybrid of a human and a lobster.

Example Sentences

Maybe I'll become a lobsterwoman.

The author (and lobsterwoman) Linda Greenlaw, about to depart on a book tour for her new mystery, admitted to me that Mr. Obama’s emergence as the Democratic nominee was a historic, awe-inspiring moment —— not that she’s going to vote for him.

Marian wished for the moment that she'd gone with her father long ago and become a lobsterwoman, running a boat of her own.

And there are always lobster boats out with lobstermen and lobsterwomen working to catch someone's dinner!

Pat's looks like a washerwoman, and mine, which I like the best, is a lobsterwoman with a lobsterbaby on her lap.

'You can't be Pamela Macx,' says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobsterwoman-thing.

They ranged from the display of tattooed women as exotic pictures—like Salome/ "the famous Oriental beauty tattooed in seven colors," seen at Luna Park in 1912 (ATP, Fonds Soury, vol. 19, 149 top and bottom), a deeply erotic, nonnormative performance—to the virile displays of the female animal tamer's courage, to the gender inappropriate but familiar woman wrestler, and to the “monsters” such as mule women or lobster women.

The low-budget 1964 horror movie Vengeance of the Lobsterwoman provided Meryl Streep with her first starring role, opposite Roger Moore who played the Lobsterwoman.

Word Forms

• lobsterwomen
• lobster-woman
• lobster woman

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When Should You Use Lobster woman?

Use lobster woman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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