turkey

noun

1. (countable, obsolete)The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
2. (countable)A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.
3. (countable)A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.

   “It was a Turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.”

4. (uncountable)The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

   “All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.”

5. (countable)With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
6. (countable)An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
7. (countable, derogatory, slang)A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

   “Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.”

8. (Australia, US, countable, dated, slang)A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
9. (US, countable, slang)A failure.

   “That film was a turkey.”

   “And despite the gross incompetence of Hemmings' direction, the ludicrous script, and the heavy-handed acting, there remains a stellar reason to see and enjoy Just a Gigolo: David Bowie. David Bowie is a great actor, and not even this turkey can obscure that fact.”

   “There were a few turkeys. In the rush to present a futuristic vision, the railways' heritage was largely forgotten and we ended up with new stations at Euston and at Coventry, its brash sidekick which I particularly loathe, although (of course) it won design awards.”

10. (US, countable, derogatory, mildly, slang, usually)A foolish or inept person.

    “The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.”

11. (derogatory, slang)A prostitute.

    “Shorty think she slick, but everybody know she a turkey.”

12. (uncountable)Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
13. (obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).

name

1. A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.

   “One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.”

   “This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.”

2. (historical, proscribed, sometimes)Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
3. A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

adj

1. (uncountable)Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
2. (obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).