Usually means: Submit or show deep respect.
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  1. bow down: Vocabulary.com
  2. bow down: Wiktionary
  3. bow down: Dictionary.com
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  5. bow down: Rhymezone
  6. bow down: FreeDictionary.org
  7. bow down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. bow down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. bow down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bow down: Encyclopedia

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  1. bow down: Idioms

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  1. bow down: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bow down)

verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To bow, to bend oneself as a gesture of deference or respect.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To submit to another; to acknowledge one's inferiority to another.

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