v. the act of masturbation
Dude, quit turkey tugging and lets go.
To procrastinate, fanny about or in some way take a circuitous route to the intended result. Can be used in reference to someone avoiding the issue, beating about the bush or stalling
James, stop romancing the turkey and tell me what happened!
Slushy ice mix on a trail where you don’t know if there’s solid ice or grippy mud under it.
Since it’s 40 degrees out, Riley Trails is all turkey ice right now.
A slur for people from the New England Area, usually targeted towards Patriots fans or people who are just making a fool of themselves.
*At a Football game in Tennessee*
Patrick: "The Titans Suck! Patriots for the win!"
Nick: "Go back home you Turkey Back!"
I saw this girl last night and she had a great turkey cutter!
Anecdote popularized (and maybe invented) by the author and former economics professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb that shows the risk in rare but harmful events. - so called "black swans".
It goes as follows:
"A Turkey is fed for 1.000 days by a butcher. Every day confirms to the turkey (and the turkey's economics department, and it's risk management department and it's analytics department ...) that in fact the butcher loves turkeys. Every day brings more confidence to the statement. Until one day the Turkey is ripe for Thanks Giving."
Definition of "Turkey Problem": A series of events or actions enticing an unsuspecting party (Turkey; usually used to symbolize people or corporations) to be misled about the amount of risk / potential harm entailed in a transaction.