1. Large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
   "Wild turkeys strutted through the clearing displaying their tail feathers";
   - Meleagris gallopavo
    
2. Flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
   "Families gathered to enjoy roast turkey on Thanksgiving"
    
3. [informal] An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
   "the first experiment was a real turkey";
   - bomb [informal], dud, flop [informal], clunker [N. Amer, informal]
    
4. [informal] A person who does something thoughtless or annoying
   "some turkey is blocking the driveway";
   - joker [informal]

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
   - Republic of Turkey, Türkiye

Derived forms: turkeys

Type of: bust [informal], clinker [N. Amer, informal], clunker [N. Amer, informal], country, disagreeable person, domestic fowl, dud, epic fail [informal], fizzle, flop [informal], fowl, land, poultry, state, unpleasant person, washout

Part of: Anatolia, Asia Minor, Balkan Peninsula, Balkans, genus Meleagris, Meleagris, Middle East, Mideast, NATO, Near East, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [Brit], North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Encyclopedia: Turkey, North Carolina