Turkeyname/ˈtɜːki/

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  A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.

  • One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
  • This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.
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  historicalSynonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.

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  A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

Turkeynoun/ˈtɜːki/

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  Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).

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  obsoleteSynonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).

Turkeyadj/ˈtɜːki/

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  Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).

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  obsoleteSynonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).

turkeynoun/ˈtɜːki/

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  obsoleteThe guinea fowl (family Numididae).

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  A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.

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  A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.

  • It was a Turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.
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  The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

  • All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
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  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)).

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  bowlinghobbieslifestyleAn act of throwing three strikes in a row.

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  derogatoryslangmedicinesciencesA patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

  • Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.
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  datedslangA pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.