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n. - An emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to scavenger birds.

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  • Judicial Circuit of Illinois, either on the back of a raw-boned horse, or in a rickety buggy drawn by the same old "crowbait," as his legal friends called the animal.
  • Bid ... crowbait by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo on Monday, Apr 9, 2007 at 3: 51: 14 PM
  • Optimal by C. Bid on Wednesday, Apr 25, 2007 at 1: 26: 26 PM crowbait by Mikael Rudolph on Wednesday, Apr 25, 2007 at 1: 43: 41 PM
  • The dangers are that Brown gives him another hammering on PMQs and the electorate begins to feel he's nothing special and 'better the devil you know' ... crowbait
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