turkey

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

   the first experiment was a real turkey

2. 2
   noun

   The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

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

3. 3
   noun

   A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A failure.

   That film was a turkey.

5. 5
   noun

   A foolish or inept person.

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

6. 6
   noun

   A prostitute.

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

7. 7
   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.

8. 8
   noun

   large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail

Etymology

From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥).