cowtow

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cowtow

  1. Misspelling of kowtow.
    • 1990 December 16, Tom Sparks, “Universal Suffrage”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 4:
      We will be powerless, subject to the whims of every traffic cop and legal bigot who is aware that we don't even have to break a law to be imprisoned...and more and more laws will be enacted—as has already begun—that require us to cowtow to the personal desires of the tyrannical majority.