eat crow
Definition of eat crow
US, informal
: to admit that one was wrong or accept that one has been defeated He was forced to eat crow when the company fired him.
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: to take in through the mouth as food : ingest, chew, and swallow in turn
: to destroy, consume, or waste by or as if by eating
: to bear the expense of : take a loss on
: something to eat : food
: 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
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