carrion crow

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noun

a European crow, Corvus corone, that feeds on carrion.

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Origin of carrion crow

First recorded in 1520–30

Words nearby carrion crow

carrier wave, Carrington, carriole, carrion, carrion beetle, carrion crow, carrion flower, Carrión's disease, carritch, Carroll, Carroll, Lewis

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This mass incarceration is destroying the Black community -- it is, as Michelle Alexander writes, the New Jim Crow.
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Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women.
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Each working in its own way was essential to ending Jim Crow in the South.
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Slowly, still falteringly but inexorably, Jim Crow justice was disappearing in the South.
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“It tasted like a crow enchilada,” Morrissey said, as he literally ate his words.
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Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.
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The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
And he quite agreed with old Mr. Crow, who had come hurrying up to see what was going on.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Mr. Crow was rocking back and forth on his perch, for a joke—on anybody except himself—always delighted him.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Farmer Green's cat had never liked Mr. Crow, for no particular reason.
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British Dictionary definitions for carrion crow

carrion crow

noun

a common predatory and scavenging European crow, Corvus corone, similar to the rook but having a pure black billSee also hooded crow

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