turkey
/ˈtɝki/ noun A1- A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
- A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
- 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)).
- An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
- A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
- A failure. · That film was a turkey.
- A foolish or inept person. · The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
Plural turkeys
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However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
I had also a commission from the Sultan of Turkey which called for immediate action, as political consequences of the gravest kind might arise from its neglect.
This time it was a great matter that was under discussion, connected with a vessel laden with Turkey carpets, stuffs of the Levant, and cashmeres.
Greece only had risen against Turkey, and had begun her war of independence; all eyes were turned towards Athens—it was the fashion to pity and support the Greeks.
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