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Meanings of crawdad in English

Portuguese
lagostas
Catalan
cranc de mar
Spanish
cangrejo de río
Wikidata

Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.

lagostas
Usage of crawdad in English
1
His hands kept opening and closing like the pincers on a crawdad.
Knockemstiff
2
Duane saw a crawdad tumble out with the dirty water and soaked maps.
Summer of Night
3
She immediately dismantled a couple of crawdad houses to get the kind of mud she required.
Lonesome dove
4
He brushed a stain off his lapel and seven letters fluttered to the floor, forming a word: crawdad.
The red pyramid
5
He remembers his mother witnessing this snapping of the crawdad heads, and this, his corruptive influence on the favored one.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
6
They caught crawdads near the dock, and Liz cooked them that night for dinner.
The house on hope street
7
We went to the Crawdad Diner, a real dive that happened to have very good food.
Dead until dark
8
He remembered hunting for crawdads here with Dale and Mike and the town kids a couple of summers ago.
Summer of Night
9
Crags on private land, like Crawdad Canyon in Utah and Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Arkansas, also charge modest day use fees.
Climbing Magazine
10
Bobby Orr said Louisiana because he'd heard folks there ate crawdads and he'd like to see such a thing as that.
Serena
11
"Old Sam et crawdads," she said, as she sat back to survey her handiwork.
Lonesome dove
12
Crawdad Canyon houses almost 200 routes, half of which are 5.10 or easier, and range in height from 40 to 60 feet.
Climbing Magazine
Frequent collocations
Translations for crawdad
Crawdad through the time