What is "crawdads"

Usage examples of "crawdads".

Woods and secret green trails, swinging on vines over the creek, catching crawdads under the rocks.

Raccoon fished for crawdads and perched at the edge of the water like black-masked bandits searching out their prey beneath rocks and waterlogged driftwood.

And we caught crawdads by tying a lump of bacon fat to a string and dropping it into the creek.

We look at each other over our lunch of crawdads and miner's lettuce.