noun
- freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters; crayfish
Usage: informal; chiefly Southern and Midwestern US
Examples
- We caught crawdads in the creek behind our house.
- The restaurant serves boiled crawdads with corn and potatoes.
- Children love hunting for crawdads under rocks in shallow streams.
- My grandmother made the best crawdad bisque in Louisiana.
- The pond was full of crawdads hiding in the muddy bottom.
- We used bacon as bait to catch crawdads from the riverbank.