Crawfish Definition

krôfĭsh
crawfishes
verb
To withdraw from a position; back down.
Webster's New World

(dialect, Southern US) To backpedal, desert or withdraw, used with out.

He said he'd organize the project, but I think he crawfished out of it.
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noun

Crayfish.

Webster's New World

(Southern US, Midwest US and Western US) Alternative form of crayfish.

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Other Word Forms of Crawfish

Noun

Singular:
crawfish
Plural:
crawfishes

Crawfish Sentence Examples

  • Blind crawfish (Cambarus pellucidus)inhabit the Crawfish Spring.

  • Ortmann has traced the centre of dispersal of the fresh-water Crawfish genera Cambarus, Potamobius and Cambaroides to eastern Asia, where their common ancestors lived in Cretaceous time.

  • The menu includes a variety of jambalayas, crawfish, catfish, and po'boys.

  • Have your oysters raw, boiled, chargrilled or fried, along with shrimp, crab claws, catfish and crawfish.

  • Some catfish, shad, smelt, halibut, herring, perch, sturgeon, flounders, oysters, clams, crabs and crawfish are also obtained from Oregon waters.

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