Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1. 
 make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; 
- Example: "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"- Example: "He backed out of his earlier promise"- Example: "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"[syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
crawfish out
    v 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" [syn: retreat,
         pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish
         out, pull in one's horns, withdraw]