turkey drop

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An event in which a turkey is dropped from a high altitude.

2. 2

   A breakup occurring around Thanksgiving, especially associated with first-year college…

   A breakup occurring around Thanksgiving, especially associated with first-year college students who have become separated from their high school sweethearts.

   • A lot of Turkey Drops happen in your Freshman year at college — and it's not hard to see why. If any of you, like me, had an ill-fated high school into college relationship, you've been there.
   • It would be impossible to estimate the number of couples that participate in the turkey drop on an annual basis, but it’s probably a lot.
3. 3

   To break up with a partner around Thanksgiving.

   • "We were both home and I wanted to do it face to face as opposed to a phone call or text," he [Robbie Schenker] said of turkey dropping his then long-distance girlfriend.
   • When small-town college girl Lucy comes home for Thanksgiving break, she suspects she will be "turkey dropped," or dumped by her high school boyfriend.

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