"cry uncle" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See etymology at say uncle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cries uncle",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crying uncle",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried uncle",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried uncle",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cry uncle (third-person singular simple present cries uncle, present participle crying uncle, simple past and past participle cried uncle)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 158",
          "text": "The Powels would serve strong punch and play loud music, and their parties ended when the last guest cried uncle, often a day and half after they began.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To beg for mercy; to give up, admit defeat."
      ],
      "id": "en-cry_uncle-en-verb-2ZmX-t1t",
      "links": [
        [
          "beg",
          "beg"
        ],
        [
          "mercy",
          "mercy"
        ],
        [
          "give up",
          "give up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, colloquial) To beg for mercy; to give up, admit defeat."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "say uncle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/En-au-cry_uncle.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cry uncle"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "See etymology at say uncle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cries uncle",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crying uncle",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried uncle",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried uncle",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cry uncle (third-person singular simple present cries uncle, present participle crying uncle, simple past and past participle cried uncle)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 158",
          "text": "The Powels would serve strong punch and play loud music, and their parties ended when the last guest cried uncle, often a day and half after they began.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To beg for mercy; to give up, admit defeat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beg",
          "beg"
        ],
        [
          "mercy",
          "mercy"
        ],
        [
          "give up",
          "give up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, colloquial) To beg for mercy; to give up, admit defeat."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/En-au-cry_uncle.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "say uncle"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cry uncle"
}