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turkey problem

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.
by GruntPa June 13, 2019
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Turkey Cheese

Turkey Cheese, the area of loose greasy skin underneath the chin that looks like a gobbling turkey and also some stinky, tecky and sticky Swiss smock cheese. The turkey cheese can be incorporated into many sexual maneuvers where the man whips out his small smock and buries it right into the cheese hole to the point that he's punching the turkey cheese with his smock like a punching bag.
Wow I went home with this chick from the club on Saturday and punched her turkey cheese like Mike Tyson with my mince meat sword.
by Smock Snorkel August 6, 2019
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Turkey Back

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!"
by TolerateButHate June 12, 2020
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Turkey Skin Giblets

She said she was hungry so I pulled her down and let her dine on my Turkey skin giblets.

He was teabagging my Turkey skin giblets.
by Dick Onchin November 19, 2020
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Turkey ice

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.
by mattmichielsen January 13, 2021
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Turkey Mama

Damnnn she gained weight! She a turkey mama now!!
by Ronnie Ron July 13, 2022
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Torky

Long lost sister of junior (junior b)
EXAMPLE:

“That’s my Torky…as it seems” 🎶

Torky can often be interchangeable with an adorable little house cat or puppy from how cute she is

The child services mentioned torky as having been spotted in a dam near a pond which only aroused suspicion

Torky, torky (a used napkin holder, etc) is simply Torkish for long lost follower/relative
by jezzabellheights_ July 25, 2022
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