crawfish

craw·fish  (krôfsh)

n. Chiefly Southern & Midland U.S.

Variant of crayfish.

intr.v. craw·fished, craw·fish·ing, craw·fish·es Informal

To withdraw from an undertaking.

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crawfish

Noun

pl -fish or -fishes same as crayfish

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crawfish - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly crawdad, ecrevisse, crayfish Old World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America American crayfish - common large crayfishes of eastern North America shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
	2.	crawfish - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster crawdaddy, crawdad, crayfish decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax Astacidae, Astacura, family Astacidae - crayfish Old World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America American crayfish - common large crayfishes of eastern North America
	3.	crawfish - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters sea crawfish, spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish lobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae genus Palinurus, Palinurus - type genus of the family Palinuridae crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
Verb	1.	crawfish - make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" back away, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, back out, retreat, pull back, withdraw draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retreat, withdraw, retire - pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"