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▸ 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”).
Similar:
dud,
joker,
bomb,
agriocharis ocellata,
meleagris gallopavo,
Ocellated turkey,
Turky,
chicken,
Turke,
turkis,
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