Meaning of Turkey | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
2. The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
   countable, obsolete
3. Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
   uncountable
4. A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.
   countable
5. A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
   countable
6. Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
   historical, proscribed, sometimes
7. Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).
   obsolete, uncountable
8. A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
   countable
9. The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
   uncountable
10. 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)).
    countable
11. An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
    countable
12. A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
    countable, derogatory, slang
13. A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
    Australia, US, countable, dated, slang
14. A failure.
    US, countable, slang
15. A foolish or inept person.
    US, countable, derogatory, mildly, slang, usually
16. A prostitute.
    derogatory, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“It was a Turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.”

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

“Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.”

“That film was a turkey.”

“And despite the gross incompetence of Hemmings' direction, the ludicrous script, and the heavy-handed acting, there remains a stellar reason to see and enjoy Just a Gigolo: David Bowie. David Bowie is a great actor, and not even this turkey can obscure that fact.”

“There were a few turkeys. In the rush to present a futuristic vision, the railways' heritage was largely forgotten and we ended up with new stations at Euston and at Coventry, its brash sidekick which I particularly loathe, although (of course) it won design awards.”

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

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

“One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.”

“This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.”

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