Usually means: Sudden, complete cessation of addiction.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word cold turkey:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold-turkey, cold turkey: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cold turkey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cold turkey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cold turkey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cold turkey: Vocabulary.com
  6. cold-turkey: Wordnik
  7. cold turkey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cold turkey: Wiktionary
  9. cold turkey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cold turkey: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cold-turkey, cold turkey: Dictionary.com
  12. cold turkey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Cold Turkey (film), Cold Turkey (song), Cold Turkey, Cold turkey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. cold turkey: Rhymezone
  15. cold turkey: Free Dictionary
  16. cold turkey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Cold Turkey: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  18. Cold Turkey: The Word Detective
  19. cold turkey: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. Cold turkey: Phrase Finder

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cold Turkey (song), cold turkey: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. cold turkey: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold turkey, cold turkey, cold turkey, cold turkey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cold turkey: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Cold turkey: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. the cold turkey: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cold turkey)

noun:  Sudden and complete withdrawal from a dependent substance, especially a drug.
noun:  The physiological effects of such a withdrawal.
noun:  (US military slang, World War I– World War II) Something exposed as a target due to surmountable defense.
adverb:  (idiomatic) Not gradually; all at once. Refers especially to quitting a habit by force of will rather than by a gradual reduction.
verb:  (informal) To undergo sudden and complete withdrawal from a dependent substance, especially a drug.

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