eat crow

: any of various large usually entirely glossy black passerine birds (family Corvidae and especially genus Corvus)

: a member of an American Indian people of the region between the Platte and Yellowstone rivers

: the language of the Crow people

: to make the loud shrill sound characteristic of a cock

: to utter a sound expressive of pleasure

: to exult gloatingly especially over the distress of another

: the cry of the cock

: a triumphant cry