turkey Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
   Meleagris gallopavo.
   
2. noun 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
   Republic of Turkey.
   
3. noun a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
   joker.
   
   • some joker is blocking the driveway
4. noun flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
   
5. noun an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
   dud; bomb.
   
   • the first experiment was a real turkey
   • the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned

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