Overview of noun crawfish

The noun crawfish has 3 senses

• crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse -- (tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly)


• crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy -- (small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster)


• spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish -- (large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters)

Overview of verb crawfish

The verb crawfish has 1 sense

• retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw -- (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")