Noun
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large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- spiny lobster - rock lobster - sea crawfish -
small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
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tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
- ecrevisse
Verb
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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"
- pull back - back out - back away - crawfish out - pull in one's horns