turkey meaning and definition

TURKEY noun

Definition of turkey (noun)

1. large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
   • synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo
2. 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
   • synonyms: Republic of Turkey
3. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
   • "some joker is blocking the driveway"
   • synonyms: joker
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"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
   • synonyms: bomb, dud