Usually means: Promotion based on seniority alone.
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  3. buggin's turn, buggins turn: Dictionary.com
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▸ noun:  Buggins' turn or Buggins's turn is a humorous, disparaging British term for appointment to a position by rotation or seniority rather than by merit.


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