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English
Noun
raw lobster (plural raw lobsters)
- (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
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary