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crawfish

English

  1. 🔊 small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  2. 🔊 tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
  3. 🔊 large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
  4. 🔊 make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
    “We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him”

Similar words

spiny lobster langouste rock lobster crayfish sea crawfish crayfish crawdad crawdaddy crayfish crawdad ecrevisse retreat pull back back out back away crawfish out pull in one's horns withdraw