lobsterback

[ lob-ster-bak ]

noun

1. redcoat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lobsterback¹

lobster + back ¹; in reference to the red color of cooked lobsters

Example Sentences

A drummer started beating time, and the Union Jack rose to the top of the flagpole, accompanied by whistles and shouts from the lobsterbacks and Loyalist New Yorkers, who took off their hats in respect.

From Literature

Troops were dispatched to overawe Boston, but the angry Bostonians hooted and hissed the "lobsterbacks," as the redcoats were derisively styled, and in 1770 provoked them to actual bloodshed—the so-called "Boston Massacre."

From Project Gutenberg

He was a mountain clothed in a lobsterback uniform.

From Literature