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1. Large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
   - Meleagris gallopavo
    
2. A person who does something thoughtless or annoying
   - joker
    
3. Flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
    
4. An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
   "the first experiment was a real turkey"
   - bomb, dud, flop, clunker [N. Amer]

1. 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
   - Republic of Turkey

Derived forms: turkeys

See also: Turkish

Type of: bust, country, disagreeable person, domestic fowl, fizzle, flop, fowl, land, poultry, state, unpleasant person

Part of: Anatolia, Asia Minor, Balkan Peninsula, Balkans, genus Meleagris, Meleagris, Middle East, Mideast, NATO, Near East, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [Brit], North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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