crawfish out

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsretreatpull backback outback awaycrawfishpull in one's hornswithdraw

Questions about crawfish out

What does crawfish out mean?

crawfish out means "make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity".

What is another word for crawfish out?

Close synonyms include retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crawfish out a common word?

crawfish out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.