crawfish

craw·fish

C0730100 (krô′fĭsh′)n. Chiefly Southern & Midland US Variant of crayfish.intr.v. craw·fished, craw·fish·ing, craw·fish·es Informal To withdraw from an undertaking.

crawfish

(ˈkrɔːˌfɪʃ) n, pl -fish or -fishes (Animals) a variant (esp US) of crayfish²

craw•fish

(ˈkrɔˌfɪʃ)

n., pl. (esp. collectively) -fish, (esp. for kinds or species) -fish•es, n. 1. crayfish. v.i. 2. Informal. to back out of a commitment or retreat from a position. [1615–25; earlier crafish, cravish, cravis < Middle French crevice crayfish]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crawfish - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled brieflycrawdad, ecrevisse, crayfishOld World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North AmericaAmerican crayfish - common large crayfishes of eastern North Americashellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
	2.	crawfish - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobstercrawdaddy, crawdad, crayfishdecapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thoraxAstacidae, Astacura, family Astacidae - crayfishOld World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North AmericaAmerican 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 lobsterssea crawfish, spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfishlobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridaegenus Palinurus, Palinurus - type genus of the family Palinuridaecrayfish, 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, withdrawdraw 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"

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