The act of dumping your significant other while both of you are on Thanksgiving break. This is especially used to describe the situation when college students return home for the first time since both individuals left for college and realize there is a lingering awkward tension between a once solid, love bound relationship. The two thus break-up to embrace the freedom and the ability to hook up with that guy/gal that you have been longing to since the first day you arrived at school.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods