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- verb Present participle of
crawfish .
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Examples
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Steve, we saw in Judy Woodruff's interview with Governor Dean a moment ago, him kind of crawfishing away from the liberal label, and say, well, I'm a centrist, I'm a centrist.
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It sounds to me like Mr. Dobbs is crawfishing, or doing the back stroke
Fueling speculation, Dobbs appears to soften on key issue 2009
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But, frankly, it pissed me off to no end that many of the people who (rightly) assailed Vitter for his hypocrisy were crawfishing like crazy over the fact that Edwards lied to them repeatedly and humiliated a woman who is a hero to many in the self-proclaimed progressive movement.
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When one adds in her opponents from her 'First Lady' (or is it 'betrayed Lady') days with her current crawfishing, I don't think she is electable even when a Democratic tide is running.
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It's good to catch politicians redhanded and waffling and crawfishing away from the truth.
GOP: Mailer Attacking Our Guy As Confederate-Friendly Is False -- Kind Of 2009
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Ahem ... that's some serious crawfishing, ma'am, that I'm unaccustomed to you allowing in others.
According to Newsweek, "it's only fair to conclude" that the Obama campaign is not trying to flip Texas county convention delegates. Ann Althouse 2008
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It sounds like you're all set, but if they start crawfishing on you, let me know, and we'll straighten it out Let's have a definition: craw·fish v. To back out of an endeavor (like a crawfish trying to back out of a pot of boiling water) Got it?
"Crawfishing" Slimbolala 2006
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Bayou towns sustained by shrimping and crawfishing have been scratched off the earth.
Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007
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Bayou towns sustained by shrimping and crawfishing have been scratched off the earth.
Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007
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Slant drilling into Iraqi southern oil fields, and crawfishing on the price set by OPEC and sell crude for prices that destabilized an oil market Hussein of Iraq needed desperately to rebuild his country.
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