Definitions for crows

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crows crow

Spelling: [kroh]

IPA: /kroʊ/

Crows is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in crows (corsw).

Definitions for crows

noun

1. 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.
2. any of several other birds of the family Corvidae.
3. any of various similar birds of other families.
4. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Corvus.
5. crowbar (def 1).
6. the characteristic cry of a rooster.
7. an inarticulate cry of pleasure.
8. a member of a Siouan people of eastern Montana.
9. a Siouan language closely related to Hidatsa.

Idioms

1. as the crow flies, in a straight line; by the most direct route:
2. eat crow, Informal. to be forced to admit to having made a mistake, as by retracting an emphatic statement; suffer humiliation:
3. have a crow to pick / pluck with someone, Midland and Southern U.S. to have a reason to disagree or argue with someone.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
2. to gloat, boast, or exult (often followed by over).
3. to utter an inarticulate cry of pleasure, as an infant does.

Origin of crows

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

Examples for crows

“It tasted like a crow enchilada,” Morrissey said, as he literally ate his words.

And a third is that we all paused a second to look at the red glow over Baltimore, 35 miles away as the crow flies.

You could actually hear a crow in the distance when this happened.

The crow had got too much of a start, they said, considering that the wind was in her favour.

If anything should happen, the call will be three croaks of a crow.

crow explained that his site put preventative measures in place to preclude trolls from reigning.

crow married and says that midway through the Clinton presidency his wife began to nudge him to the left.

She is not so infallible a markswoman, but that she might shoot at a crow and kill a pigeon.

His flight to the crow's nest had been an effort to escape its fury, but it had followed him there.

Methinks that Gascony is too small a cock to crow so lustily.