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English
Etymology
From the red coats they used to wear.
Noun
unboiled lobster (plural unboiled lobsters)
- (obsolete, slang) A police officer.
- Synonym: raw lobster
1864, William Russell, Autobiography of a London Detective, page 52:Unfortunately, the police have got your address. I didn't tell the unboiled lobster that, though born in England, your mother was a French woman — a Saint Aubin.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary