Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jive turkey

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 02:45, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jive turkey

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WP is not a dictionary of slang expressions.Jaque Hammer (talk) 07:46, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete. I am very well-versed on this term, but I actually can't find any Ghits other than Urban Dictionary. Erpert (let's talk about it) 08:03, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No mention in the Oxford English Dictionary, but it gets coverage in American Slang: Cultural Language Guide to Living in the USA by Edward Melillo and Contemporary American slang by Richard A. Spears. However, Wikipedia isn't a dictionary, and Wiktionary already has an entry on the term. -- Lear's Fool 10:36, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. -- -- Lear's Fool 11:08, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as argued above. -- Hoary (talk) 13:49, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - once a notable phrase, it should always be. Bearian (talk) 16:25, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a precident of keeping phrases? It's just that I have trouble seeing how this doesn't fall afoul of Wikipedia is not a dictionary. -- Lear's Fool 00:10, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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