lobsterbacks

Thus British soldiers, the hated "lobsterbacks" -- often portrayed in American history books as the cruel automatons of a relentless occupying force -- were cursed, spat upon and showered with rocks long before the war began.

Seeing Red 2007

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

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

And the folks who villified John Adams for representing the “lobsterbacks” had the same disdain for teh rule of law that we see now among Republicans and their trolls.

Think Progress » Mukasey calls Liz Cheney’s ‘Al-Qaeda 7′ ad ‘shoddy and dangerous.’ 2010

The lobsterbacks are no great shakes trackin 'in the dark, but they'll find this place sooner or later, shutters or no.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

(The 80% or so of us who support universal health care also latently long to quarter lobsterbacks.)

David Segal: Mad Hatters Don't Have Monopoly on Patriotism 2009

Also present was Terror's Sergeant Tozer — who had been out of both captains 'graces since the night of the Carnivale when his men had fired on survivors of the fire but who was still the highest-ranked survivor of his heavily thinned group of lobsterbacks — speaking for the Marines.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

“You just toddle off now with your remaining lobsterbacks and let me be.”

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Down at the other end of the Common, a squadron of lobsterbacks drills and marches round the base of a hummock with a stone powder-house planted in its top.

Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives 2003

The lobsterbacks fired their muskets in volley after volley.

Lance Mannion: 2004

The lobsterbacks fired their muskets in volley after volley.

Rebels and Redcoats 2004