crawfish

• ⇰ Any decapod crustacean of the family <fam>Astacid&aelig;</fam> (genera <gen>Cambarus</gen> and <gen>Cambarus</gen>), resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The
• ⇰ tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
• ⇰ a large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.

• ⇰ to back out in a humilating manner; <as>as, We'll have to <ex>crawfish</ex> out from meeting with him</as>.