walk turkey
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To obey obsequiously; to toe the line.
Example Sentences
- "Out on the bar the north wind commenced to make the Yaquina walk turkey, standing her up on either end alternately and rolling her both ways at once."
- "The last time my rubber boots got hooked up in the staysail sheets, and as the sail was full of wind I walked "Turkey" for a little while with both feet in the air."
- "Why, swimming “dog fashion” can bear no comparison with it, while the almost frantic efforts of the young man to keep his toes on term firma, seemed to us a most vivid illustration of the days when the “big boys” used to make us “walk turkey"."
- "As a people we have an insane and deep-rooted preference for noise over harmony, for force over reason, or we should not be taken by the slack of the pants and walked turkey up to the counter,"
- "Amos Hathaway was found by his wife in the poolroom of Charlie Dismer Saturday night and was made to walk turkey right out of there."
- "But when they came to be drummed out of camp they had to walk turkey or get a bayonet run into them."