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cold turkey
noun- an act of withdrawing from addictive drugs suddenly; the time period of that withdrawal US, 1925
- If you didn’t bring a trained nurse with you, you’re just sneezed down, and it’s piddle and cold turkey for you. — The New American Mercury, p. 711, 1950
- “Cold Turkey?” I nodded. “That’s taking kind of a chance, isn’t it?” — Polly Adler, A House is Not a Home, p. 121, 1953
- “I’ve tried, Tom. Honestly I have. But no-one knows what a spell of cold turkey is like–” “Cold turkey?” “Trying to kick the habit.” — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, pp. 83–84, 1963
- I promise you anything / Get me out of this hell / Cold turkey has got me / on the run. — John Lennon, Cold Turkey, 1970
- I’m clean now. On my children. Believe me! Two weeks cold turkey waiting for bail got my head together. — Goodfellas, 1990
- [H]e didn’t realise I’d started my cold turkey already. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 195, 2000
- in blackjack, a hand comprised of two face cards US
- — Lee Solkey, Dummy Up and Deal, p. 110, 1980
- in poker, two kings dealt consecutively US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 22, 1988
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