Synonyms for turkey
ˈtɜr kitur·key

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1. turkeynoun

   Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.

   Synonyms:
   Meleagris, ocellata, pavo, gallus

2. turkeynoun

   A failure.

   That film was a turkey.

   Synonyms:
   flop

3. turkeynoun

   Synonyms:
   fool, prat, jerk, idiot, plonker

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1. turkey, Meleagris gallopavonoun

   large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

   Synonyms:
   joker, dud, bomb

2. Turkey, Republic of Turkeynoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   joker, dud, bomb

3. joker, turkeynoun

   a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

   "some joker is blocking the driveway"

   Synonyms:
   joker, dud, jokester, bomb

4. turkeynoun

   flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

   Synonyms:
   joker, dud, bomb

5. turkey, bomb, dudnoun

   an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

   "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

   Synonyms:
   flop, washout, bomb, dud, misfire, joker, bomb calorimeter

Matched Categories

1. • Middle East
   • Country
   • Domestic Fowl
   • Flop
   • Poultry
   • Unpleasant Person

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1. List of paraphrases for "turkey":

   turkish, turquie, ankara, turkeys, turk, al-roumy

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1. Hatice Cengiz:

   Jamal is a valuable person, an exemplary thinker and a courageous man who has been fighting for his principles. I don't know how I can keep living if he was abducted or killed in Turkey.

2. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   There is now a president in the country not with symbolic power, but with literal power, whether it is accepted or not, Turkey's system of government has changed. What needs to be done now is to clarify and confirm the legal framework of this de facto situation with a new constitution.

3. Cristian Maggio:

   The inflation print yesterday was atrocious...and the worst part of the story is that this isn't the end of the up move part of the inflation cycle in Turkey, bad inflation translates into a negative lira reaction, which translates into faster inflation, and that becomes a self-reinforcing loop.

4. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   We're still discussing 4G, but I'm thinking, the world is talking about 5G. Therefore we don't need to lose time with 4G. Let's be a patient a little while longer with 3G, within two years Turkey will be on 5G. Otherwise, it will be a garbage dump with 4G. Let's be patient and jump from 3G to 5G. Can we do this? We definitely can.

5. Robert Amsterdam:

   We’re suing them...in respect to these false imprisonments. Mr Gulen has a long history in Turkey of engaging his followers aggressively and falsely imprisoning hundreds of people.