turkey.
The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
Meaning & usage
The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
A bird in the genus Meleagris, usually with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck. A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
A bird in the genus Meleagris, usually with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck. 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 pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
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.
A prostitute.
Shorty think she slick, but everybody know she a turkey.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of turkey-cock and turkey-hen, originally denoting the guinea fowl, an African bird that was first imported to Europe through Turkey, but there is some controversy over the origin. The word was then transferred to the superficially similar North American bird Meleagris gallopavo.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.