turkey

Meanings

Noun

• large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
• 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
• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
• flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
• an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
  • "the first experiment was a real turkey"

Synonyms

bomb, dud, joker, Meleagris gallopavo, Republic of Turkey