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  1. Turkeying: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See turkey as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Turkey)

noun:  (countable, originally, now obsolete) The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
noun:  (countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).
noun:  (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
noun:  (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)).
noun:  (countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
noun:  (countable, medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
noun:  (countable, Australia, US, slang, dated) A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
noun:  (countable, US, slang) A failure.
noun:  (countable, US, slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang, derogatory) A prostitute.
noun:  A country located in eastern Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara
noun:  (historical, now sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
noun:  Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).
adjective:  Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
adjective:  (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).
▸ Also see turkey


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