"kow-tow" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kow-tows",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "kow-tow (third-person singular simple present kow-tows, present participle kow-towing, simple past and past participle kow-towed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "kowtow"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901 September 1, The Spectator, number 3,819, →OCLC, page 6:",
          "text": "Prince Chun, who even in Europe would not kow-tow to a European or allow his attendants to kow-tow, will be, we may rest assured, a hero in Chinese eyes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940 [1940 July 17], [Clyde] Carr, quotee, Parliamentary Debates, volume 257, →OCLC, page 561:",
          "text": "I do not believe in kow-towing to anybody",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 [1991], Clarence Thomas, quotee, Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States […] , →OCLC, page 158:",
          "text": "[U]nless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of kowtow."
      ],
      "id": "en-kow-tow-en-verb-7UnUOkkZ",
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          "kowtow#English"
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kow-tow"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kow-tows",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "head": "kow-tow"
      },
      "expansion": "kow-tow (third-person singular simple present kow-tows, present participle kow-towing, simple past and past participle kow-towed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "kowtow"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901 September 1, The Spectator, number 3,819, →OCLC, page 6:",
          "text": "Prince Chun, who even in Europe would not kow-tow to a European or allow his attendants to kow-tow, will be, we may rest assured, a hero in Chinese eyes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940 [1940 July 17], [Clyde] Carr, quotee, Parliamentary Debates, volume 257, →OCLC, page 561:",
          "text": "I do not believe in kow-towing to anybody",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 [1991], Clarence Thomas, quotee, Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States […] , →OCLC, page 158:",
          "text": "[U]nless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of kowtow."
      ],
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          "kowtow",
          "kowtow#English"
        ]
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  "word": "kow-tow"
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