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Cold Turkey

A faster but unpleasant method of stopping an addictive habit, such as drugs or alcohol. It means that you just totally, completely stop, and never do it again (or at least try to).

Going cold turkey is opposed to stopping it by gradually doing it less and less, or stopping it with help like special gum or medicine. You don't get any help; you just stop.
Lydia tried to smoke only one cigarette a week, but she ended up going back to her old habits. She decided to try out going cold turkey.

"Cold turkey" is a term describing the actions of a person who gives up his habit or addiction at a single moment, rather than through gradually easing the process through tapering off or supplemental medication. The term allegedly derives from the comparison of a cold turkey carcass and the state of a withdrawing addict -- most notably, the cold sweats and gooseflesh. It is often preceded by the word 'going', as 'going cold turkey'."--Wikipedia
by Newbia Leogetti December 2, 2005
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Some poor schmuck tethered to a phone peddling shitty mechandise or services to random numbers.
Craig G. Sat in a cubicle calling random people all day trying to sell them shitty stocks which he knows nothing about. What a cold calling cocksucker!
by Frankie2times September 16, 2016
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The only way to stop was to go cold jerky.
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1) We're getting married next Saturday, that's if Trevor doesn't get cold feet!

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Stop at the ATM, I'm gonna need some cold hard if we're going to the strip club right now.
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Codon: the sequence of three nucleotides that codes for one amino acid.
Ribosomes pull the mRNA strand through itself one codon at a time. As the strand moves, the start codon and its complementary tRNA molecule shift into the 2nd site inside the large subunit. This shift leaves the 1st site empty, which exposes the next mRNA codon.
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