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单词 cold turkey
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cold turkey
cold turkey n. (see turkey n.2).
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cold turkey
e. cold turkey: a method of treating drug addicts by sudden and complete withdrawal of the drug, instead of by a gradual process. Also attributive and as adv.phr.; also transferred. Hence cold-turkey vb. trans., to cure of drug addiction by ‘cold turkey’ treatment. slang (originally North American).
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reduction1914
cold turkey1921
detox1975
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment of specific diseases or conditions > treat specific diseases or conditions [verb (transitive)] > cure of addiction to drugs or alcohol
cold turkey1960
dry out1967
detox1972
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 13 Oct. 15/6 Perhaps the most pitiful figures who have appeared before Dr. Carleton Simon..are those who voluntarily surrender themselves. When they go before him, they [sc. drug addicts] are given what is called the ‘cold turkey’ treatment.
1936 Amer. Speech 11 120/1 Cold turkey, treatment of addicts in institutions where they are taken off drugs suddenly without the ‘tapering off’ which the addict always desires.
1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues xviii. 243 We went on ‘cold turkey’ that morning without a rehearsal.
1951 N.Y. Times 27 June 19 She tried it ‘cold turkey’ once, which she explained meant merely stopping completely, without any attendant medication.
1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Sept. 589/4 The Scene is written by a junkie..who was snitched by a flip, busted by the nailers and after a stretch in the pen cold turkeyed..that is to say, was once a dope addict; he was arrested and..managed to break himself of his addiction.
1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xi. 72 I made one cold~turkey cure and it near killed me.
1976 S. George Fatal Shadows 154 She took a cold turkey, no methedrine, no sedatives, nothing, just off.
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