turkey coma
Post-feast unconsciousness
Turkey coma is the drowsy, sluggish state people experience after eating a large meal, especially Thanksgiving dinner.
Though popularly blamed on tryptophan in turkey, the sleepiness owes more to overeating carbohydrates and the body diverting blood flow to digestion.
The term captures that heavy-lidded, couch-bound feeling that follows a feast: I'm in a total turkey coma—don't expect me to help with dishes.
- indigestionPainful stomach after meals
- couchUpholstered seating furniture
- heavyOf great mass
- pieCrust-enclosed baked dish
- lethargyAbnormal drowsiness and apathy
drowsiness · fullness · food baby · gorging · tryptophan · feast · second helpings · snooze · bloated · nap · afternoon nap · passing out · stretched out · slumber · satiety · overeating · belly · sedative
turkey comawide awake
Totally alert and attentive
energized · wired · bright-eyed and bushy-tailed · alert · pumped up