(chiefly, US, idiomatic) To recognize that one has been shown to be mistaken or outdone, especially by admitting that one has made a humiliating error.
He must apologise, he saw that clearly enough, must eat crow, as he told himself.
“People like you constantly eat crow and scuttle back under your rock. Never changing, never adapting, just the same old tired falsehoods.”
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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