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cold turkey
adverb
(used of an attempt to break a drug addiction) suddenly and completely without narcotics or medication to ease the withdrawal symptoms US, 1922- Included as a medical record from the hospital when he had made her go cold turkey, which is dope-addict talk for an all-out cure. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 12, 1947
- They just throw you in the hospital by yourself, take you off cold turkey, and watch you suffer. — Billie Holiday with William Dufty, Lady Sings the Blues, p. 131, 1956
- You did it cold turkey, man? — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 120, 1958
- Like the worst habit I ever had was $135 a day. And I kicked that one cold-turkey ‘cause I didn’t know what I was in for. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 99, 1966
- Each time take less and less and bang, you’ve kicked, cause trying to kick it cold turkey is a bitch. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 204, 1967
- I kicked the habit “cold turkey” in city jail. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 101, 1969
- You might as well make up your mind to kick cold turkey, ‘cause we ain’t got nothing for you. — Donald Goines, Dopefiend, p. 230, 1971
- It was in the Tombs that I kicked the hardest habit that I’d ever kicked cold turkey in my life. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 126, 1973
- When I came out–I had of course kicked my habit–cold turkey–while in prison–I was very careful[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 57, 1980
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 38, 1996
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