Turkey

Quick meaning: Turkey is a noun meaning (countable, originally, now obsolete) The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

Meaning

(countable, originally, now obsolete) The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

More Meanings

1. (countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.
2. (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
3. (countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
4. (countable, medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
5. (countable, Australia, US, slang, dated) A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
6. (countable, US, slang) A failure.
7. (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)).

Example Sentences

That film was a turkey.

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

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

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

Word Forms

• turkeys
• turkies
• turkie

Synonyms for turkey

Depending on context, synonyms include flop, addle-brain, addlehead, airhead, baboon, beanbrain.

Related Words

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