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noun eat crow any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America. 1
noun eat crow any of several other birds of the family Corvidae. 1
noun eat crow any of various similar birds of other families. 1
noun eat crow (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Corvus. 1
noun eat crow crowbar (def 1). 1
idioms eat crow as the crow flies, in a straight line; by the most direct route: The next town is thirty miles from here, as the crow flies. 1

before 900

One of the 4% oldest English words

before 900; Middle English crowe, Old English crāwe, crāwa; cognate with Old High German krāwa; akin to Dutch kraai, German Krähe

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
eat shit — to be humble or undergo humiliation
eat one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.