Usually means: Flip upside down, like turtle.
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  2. turn turtle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. turn turtle: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. turn turtle: Free Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (turn turtle)

verb:  (intransitive, now historical) To capture a turtle by turning it onto its back.
verb:  (intransitive) Especially of a boat or ship, or some other vehicle: to turn upside down.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To fail; to go belly up.
verb:  (intransitive, surfing) To roll upside down with one's surfboard (usually a longboard) to allow a wave, especially a wave that has already broken, to pass over.

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