turkey

🇺🇸 /ˈtɜːrki/ 🇬🇧 /ˈtɜːki/
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noun
R

A large bird kept for its meat, often eaten at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

We cook a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner every year.

R

The meat from a turkey.

I love eating turkey sandwiches after Thanksgiving.

R

Something that fails badly.

That movie was a real turkey and nobody liked it.

R

A foolish or useless person.

Don't be such a turkey and help us with the work.

translation

n. A large bird kept for its meat, often eaten at Christmas and Thanksgiving.; The meat from a turkey.; Something that fails badly.; A foolish or useless person.

Word Forms

Plural turkeys