Definition of crawfish
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: crayfish 1
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: spiny lobster
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Tickets are $15 apiece and include two pounds of crawfish, potatoes and corn.
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At two-to-five inches long, Red swamp crayfish (often referred to as crawfish in southern states) are relatively large and aggressive, often outcompeting native crayfish for food and habitat and disrupting the food chain.
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Think fluffy crab beignets served with lemon powder and Old Bay aioli and sumptuous grouper swimming in thyme butter with crawfish and cornbread gnudi.
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For Slidell artist Mary Christopher, the arrival of spring also signals another delicious season: the time when crawfish are at their peak.
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Attendees can also enjoy wing, crawfish and watermelon-eating competitions, a kids zone and Southern-style cocktails.
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The team behind it partly hails from Louisiana and has experience cooking and managing Grammy-winning artists so crawfish boils on the courtyard, big-name acts on the indoor stage and a third-floor restaurant are part of the vision, too.
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Bass will start hitting the thread fin shad and searching for crawfish for protein coming out of the winter months.
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Gausman and fellow starters Chris Tillman, Andrew Cashner and Dylan Bundy claimed a table and accounted for plenty of crawfish among their new clique.
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Origin and Etymology of crawfish
by folk etymology from Middle English crevis, kraveys
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First Known Use: 1624
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearDefinition of crawfish
: to retreat from a position : back out
- I crawfished as fast as I could
- —Mark Twain
First Known Use of crawfish
1842
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