Idiom
jive turkey
Meaning
A fool, a chump, a target for jiving.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Don't be a jive turkey — just tell me the truth.”
“My uncle called the salesman a jive turkey after he tried to sell him a broken car.”
“The con artist sized up the crowd, looking for a jive turkey naive enough to fall for his elaborate scheme.”
Examples
simple
“Don't be a jive turkey — just tell me the truth.”
contextual
“My uncle called the salesman a jive turkey after he tried to sell him a broken car.”
complex
“The con artist sized up the crowd, looking for a jive turkey naive enough to fall for his elaborate scheme.”
Origin
Coined in the 1970s, originally African-American.
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