walk turkey

verb3

1. •
   To stagger or move with an ungainly gait.

   • Out on the bar the north wind commenced to make the Yaquina walk turkey, standing her up on either end alternately and rolling her both ways at once. — 1888
2. •
   To walk with the chest pushed out in front (often due to being pushed or forced)

   • As a people we have an insane and deep-rooted preference for noise over harmony, for force over reason, or we should not be taken by the slack of the pants and walked turkey up to the counter, — 1932
3. •
   To obey obsequiously; to toe the line.

   • There are a favored few who are allowed to do as they please ; but the rest of us must walk turkey, or spend our Saturday afternoons in doing extra duty. — 1883