turkey

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UK /ˈtɜːki/ US /ˈtɝki/

noun 7name 2adj 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

lean, tender | Christmas

traditional

At Thanksgiving dinner, my family always serves a traditional turkey with stuffing and cranberry sauce.

frozen | oven-ready | stuffed | roast, smoked | boned, minced

VERB + TURKEY

breed

raise

My uncle raised turkeys on his farm for many years before he retired.

eat, have | stuff | cook, roast | baste | carve

TURKEY + VERB

gobble

The turkey gobbled loudly when we scattered corn across the farmyard.

TURKEY + NOUN

farm | breast | dinner, lunch

Definitions

noun

The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.

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.

The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

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

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)).

name

A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.

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.

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”).

Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

noun — a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

joker

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

talk turkey

To talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.

An Erie car loaded with live turkeys . . . was delivered to the New-York and New-England Railroad yesterday. . . . This first cargo is symbolical of the fact that they will be able

cold turkey

A sudden and complete withdrawal from a dependent substance, especially a drug.

jive turkey

A fool, a chump, a target for jiving.

[1970s school principal:] You girls better get with what's going down! I am not a jive turkey and this school is not a jive turkey! Any questions?

stuffed like a turkey

Very full from overeating.

turkey shoot

A hunt or hunting competition, using rifles or shotguns, in which wild turkeys are the prey; a marksmanship contest in which a turkey is the prize.

Behind his barricade of barrels, Sam heard and shivered like a gun-shy collie at a turkey shoot.

Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

Maybe, but he wants me to stop cold turkey.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, turkey is marked as obsolete, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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