Usually means: Large bird, native to North America.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word turkey:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Turkey, turkey: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Turkey, turkey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Turkey, turkey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. turkey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Turkey, turkey: Vocabulary.com
  6. Turkey, Turkey, turkey: Wordnik
  7. turkey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Turkey, turkey: Wiktionary
  9. turkey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Turkey, turkey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. turkey: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Turkey: Dictionary.com
  13. turkey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. turkey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TURKEY, The Turkey (film), The Turkey, Turkey (animal), Turkey (bird), Turkey (bowling), Turkey (country), Turkey (disambiguation), Turkey (food), Turkey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Turkey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. turkey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. turkey: Rhymezone
  19. turkey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. turkey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Turkey: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. turkey: Free Dictionary
  23. turkey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Turkey, turkey: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Turkey: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Turkey: World Wide Words
  27. turkey: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Turkey: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Turkey: Investopedia
  5. Turkey (country), Turkey (nation), turkey: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Turkey (bird), Turkey (country), Turkey (nation), turkey: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Turkey (country), Turkey (nation), turkey: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Terrorism Terms (No longer online)
  4. turkey: Idioms
  5. turkey: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Turkey (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, Turkey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. turkey: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Turkey: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. turkey: ESL Slang page
  6. The Turkey, Turkey (high five), Turkey: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Turkey: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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 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”).

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