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turkey   (TTS Sound)

The noun turkey has 5 senses

• turkey, Meleagris gallopavo -- (large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food)


• Turkey, Republic of Turkey -- (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)


• joker, turkey -- (a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway")


• turkey -- (flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted)


• turkey, bomb, dud -- (an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned")