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