crawfish : Idioms & Phrases

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crawfish out

  • verb make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
    back away; back out; crawfish; pull back; pull in one's horns; withdraw; retreat.
    • 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
WordNet

sea crawfish

  • noun large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
    crawfish; langouste; rock lobster; spiny lobster; crayfish.
WordNet
Sea" craw"fish`, Sea" cray"fish` (Also<
  • Sea crawfish
  • Sea crayfish
)
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.
Webster 1913

Stone crawfish

  • (Zoöl.), a European crawfish (Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species (A. fluviatilis).
Webster 1913