Usually means: Admit error in humiliating way.
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  1. eat crow: Merriam-Webster
  2. eat crow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eat crow: Collins English Dictionary
  4. eat crow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  10. Eat crow: World Wide Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (eat crow)

verb:  (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.

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