Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make the loud noise in the throat peculiar to the turkey-cock.
  • To swallow in large pieces; swallow hastily: often with up or down.
  • To seize upon with greed; appropriate graspingly; capture: often with up or down.
  • Synonyms To devour, etc. (see eat); bolt, gulp.
  • noun The loud rattling noise in the throat made by the turkey-cock: sometimes used of the dissimilar vocal sounds of other fowls.
  • noun In golf, a putt played with such force that it would be carried some distance past the hole if it did not go in, but which does go in.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
  • transitive verb To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
  • transitive verb [Slang] to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly.
  • intransitive verb To eat greedily.
  • intransitive verb To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
  • noun A noise made in the throat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make the sound of a turkey.
  • verb To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up
  • noun The sound of a turkey.
  • noun Scotland, slang, vulgar fellatio; blowjob

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
  • verb eat hastily without proper chewing
  • noun the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock

Etymologies

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Onomatopoetic of the sound from a turkey.

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