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turkey

Dictionary definition · Turkey

noun

  1. 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
  2. large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
  3. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying"some joker is blocking the driveway"
  4. flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
  5. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual"the first experiment was a real turkey"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).