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turkey-trot

turkey-trot is the alternative form of turkey trot.

Meaning of turkey trot

Noun

turkey trot (plural turkey trots)

  1. A dance popular in the first two decades of the 20th century, consisting of exaggerated bird-like movements performed to fast-paced ragtime music.
    • From the direction of "The Yellow Lantern" […] arose the strident notes of a tinny piano beating blatantly the measure of a turkey trot.1919, Frank L. Packard, chapter 9, in The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
  2. (US) A footrace held on or around Thanksgiving Day.

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Forms of turkey-trot

Noun
pluralturkey-trots
Verb
third-person singular presentturkey-trots
present participleturkey-trotting
past participleturkey-trotted
pastturkey-trotted

Questions about turkey-trot

What is turkey-trot the alternative form of?
Turkey-trot is the alternative form of turkey trot.

Words near turkey-trot in the dictionary

  1. turkey-hen
  2. turkey-hens
  3. turkey-like
  4. turkey-shoot
  5. turkey-shoots
  6. turkey-trot
  7. turkey-trots
  8. turkey-trotted
  9. turkey-trotting
  10. turkeyberries
  11. turkeyberry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turkey-trot (page history and authors); turkey trot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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