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crow
noun- a black person US, 1823
Offensive. - It was a dangerous practice to call a Negro anything that could be loosely construed as insulting because of the centuries of their having been called niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks. — Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird sings, p. 106, 1969
- a female prostitute AUSTRALIA, 1944
Occasionally also spelt “cro.” Perhaps influenced by CHROMO- Marry you, an amateur moll like you? Marry a crow who deserted her husband and kid! — Dorothy Hewett, The Chapel Perilous, p. 75, 1972
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 26, 1977
- a mawkish, old-fashioned person US
- A corny peson is a “cornball” or a “crow.” — Women’s Digest, p. 40, September 1945
- a drinking friend BERMUDA
- — Peter A. Smith and Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, 1985
- an undertaker; an undertaker’s employee UK
From their black clothing. - — Margery Allingham, More Work for the Undertaker, 1947
- used as an abusive term of address UK
- Don’t get fucking gobbie with me, you crow, or I’ll fucking drop you. — Ken Lukowiak, A Soldier’s Song, p. 78, 1993
- cocaine UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 280, 2003
- an electronic warfare specialist US
Vietnam war usage. - He knew the “crows” in the back of the plane–four electronic warfare officers–were doing the same. — William C. Anderson, Bat 21, p. 3, 1980
- an eagle insignia in the US Navy US, 1905
- She hadn’t felt so powerful since those days when she’d first earned the “crow” of a petty officer, taking on the responsibility of command over subordinates. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 29, 1993
▶ as the crow flies
directly; in a straight line AUSTRALIA, 1902- The way the crow flies, it’s about six miles to Omana. — Wal Watkins, Race the Lazy River, p. 105, 1963
- As the crow flies that trip would be about 600 kilometres, but it was much further the way they travelled[.] — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 135, 1994
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