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craw·fish

(krô′fĭsh′)
n. Chiefly Southern & Midland US
Variant of crayfish.
intr.v. craw·fished, craw·fish·ing, craw·fish·es Informal
To withdraw from an undertaking.
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crawfish

(ˈkrɔːˌfɪʃ)
n, pl -fish or -fishes
(Animals) a variant (esp US) of crayfish 2
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craw•fish

(ˈkrɔˌfɪʃ)

n., pl. (esp. collectively) -fish, (esp. for kinds or species) -fish•es, n. v.i.
2. Informal. to back out of a commitment or retreat from a position.
[1615–25; earlier crafish, cravish, cravis < Middle French crevice crayfish]
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Noun 1. [画像:crawfish - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly]crawfish - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
Old World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
American crayfish - common large crayfishes of eastern North America
shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
2. [画像:crawfish - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster]crawfish - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
Old World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
American crayfish - common large crayfishes of eastern North America
3. [画像:crawfish - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters]crawfish - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
lobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
genus Palinurus, Palinurus - type genus of the family Palinuridae
crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
Verb 1. crawfish - make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "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"
draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retreat, withdraw, retire - pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"
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Translations

crawfish

[ˈkrɔːfɪʃ] n (US) (= crayfish) → écrevisse f
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He had asked for crawfish for his breakfast on the following morning; he intended to pass the day in making a small gallows and hang one of the finest of these fish in the middle of his room -- the red color evidently conveying an allusion to the cardinal -- so that he might have the pleasure of hanging Mazarin in effigy without being accused of having hung anything more significant than a crawfish.
When everything was ready, the gallows hung in the middle of the room, the loop made, and when the duke had cast a glance upon the plate of crawfish, in order to select the finest specimen among them, he looked around for his piece of glass; it had disappeared.
La Ramee knelt down and made a hole in the floor; meanwhile the duke hung the crawfish up by a thread.
He approached La Ramee and showing him the crawfish hung up by the thread:
He was going to throw the crawfish out also, when Grimaud snatched it from his hands.
On my imparting this discovery in confidence to Peggotty, she informed me that her brother dealt in lobsters, crabs, and crawfish; and I afterwards found that a heap of these creatures, in a state of wonderful conglomeration with one another, and never leaving off pinching whatever they laid hold of, were usually to be found in a little wooden outhouse where the pots and kettles were kept.
He soon returned, greatly improved in appearance; but so rubicund, that I couldn't help thinking his face had this in common with the lobsters, crabs, and crawfish, - that it went into the hot water very black, and came out very red.
I crawfished as fast as I could about two yards, but the boat slanted so that I couldn't make very good time; so to keep from getting run over and catched I crawled into a stateroom on the upper side.
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