crawfish

[ UK /kɹˈɔːfɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɔˌfɪʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
    He backed out of his earlier promise
    The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
    We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
NOUN
  1. large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
  2. small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  3. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
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How To Use crawfish In A Sentence

  • The boss crawfished on the Christmas bonus.
  • We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
  • Since 1983, the state crustacean of Louisiana has been the crawfish, aka the crawdad or crayfish. How To Buy & Sell just about Everything
  • The best were the langoustes (Palinurus vulgaris), the clawless lobsters called crawfish (crayfish) in the United States, and the agosta or avagosta of the Adriatic: it was confounded by the The Land of Midian
  • Arrange some sweetbreads, artichokes, and crawfish in the center, sprinkle the dish with paprika and garnish with chervil.
  • Prepare the Crawfish Bordelaise Sauce, and cover to keep warm.
  • Whether you know them as mudbugs, ditch bugs, river lobsters, crawlybottoms, crawdads, or crawfish, anyone who has spent time in streams is familiar with crayfish.
  • To create the aura of New Orleans, from that city, Ms. O'Brien imported musicians Irvin Mayfeld and the New Orleans Jazz Playhouse Revue, burlesque dancers, trumpets that served as table centerpieces and a Louisiana catering company that cooked such delicacies as crawfish pies, mini muffalettas, deep-fried catfish, pecan parmesan crusted tilapia, chicken-and-sausage jambalaya and bread pudding with rum sauce. Big Easy in Bridgehampton
  • I use them bouncing crawfish and chubs for smallmouth in medium to fast water, as well as drifting shrimp around for inshore fishing for specks, mackerel, and pompano. Circle Hook Debate Revisited
  • There is another genus of the hard-shell kind, which is called oyster; another of the soft-shell kind, not as yet designated by a single term, such as the spiny crawfish and the various kinds of crabs and lobsters; and another of molluscs, as the two kinds of calamary and the cuttle-fish; that of insects is different. The History of Animals
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