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oyster

Definition

  • noun: a type of shellfish that has a rough shell with two parts and that is eaten both cooked and raw
  • noun: any of various marine bivalve mollusks (family Ostreidae) that have a rough irregular shell closed by a single adductor muscle and include commercially important shellfish
  • synonyms: oyster wife, oyster women

Examples

  • We were young and happy, and 'the world was our oyster'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) It's weird to see you again. Weird is nice. You like Hemingway? Yeah, I'm starting to. May l? "As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea... and their faint metallic taste... as I drank their cold liquid from each shell... and washed it down (..)
    1998 City of Angels