crawfish

n 1: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: {crayfish},

{crawdad}, {ecrevisse}]

2: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

[syn: {crayfish}, {crawdad}, {crawdaddy}]

3: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but

lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: {spiny

lobster}, {langouste}, {rock lobster}, {crayfish}, {sea

crawfish}]

v : make a retreat; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting

with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise" [syn: {retreat},

{back out}, {back away}, {crawfish out}, {withdraw}]