noun
- Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
- Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster.
- Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.
- synonyms: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea crawfish
verb
- Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw
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