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Definition: Cold Turkey |
Cold TurkeyNoun1. A blunt expression of views; "I told him cold turkey". 2. Complete and abrupt withdrawal of all addictive drugs on which you have become dependent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | The freeing of an individual from an intoxication agent (as an addict from a drug) stored in the body. Immediate deprivation of all drugs (cold turkey). Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cold Turkey (1971) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cold turkey | 26 |
quit smoking cold turkey | 18 |
stop smoking cold turkey | 12 |
cold turkey movie | 3 |
quit cold turkey | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cold turkey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | kold tyrker. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | ontwenningskuur (disintoxication, withdrawal treatment), kippeval. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | chair de poule. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | tartózkodó személy, hideg személy, fagyott kutyaszar, biztos vesztes, biztos áldozat. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | pelle d'oca (creeps, cutis anserina, goose flesh). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oldcay urkeytay carne de gallina (goose flesh). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-l-o-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: clotured, truckled. | |
-3 letters: cloture, cloured, clouted, clouter, coulter, courted, courtly, crudely, cruelty, cutlery, doucely, eductor, ruckled, trocked, trucked, truckle. | |
-4 letters: cloudy, cloyed, colder, colter, colure, corked, couter, curdle, curled, curtly, cutely, cutler, decury, detour, docker, docket, dourly, drecky, drylot, ducker, dulcet, euroky, lector, locked, locker, locket, louder, loured, louted, lucked, lurked, outcry, redock. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 6C 64 54 75 72 6B 65 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01010100 01110101 01110010 01101011 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o l d   T u r k e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 006C 0064 0054 0075 0072 006B 0065 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378178702548784777191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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