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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How to use turkey in a sentence?

1. Donald Tusk:

   I have called this summit to decide in the first place what the EU and Turkey must do together to cope with the migration crisis. Our main goal is to stem the flow of migrants to Europe.

2. Eral Karayazici:

   The current view is that Turkey may not be facing heavy sanctions but (rather) measured economic sanctions over the S-400 purchase. This could create negative flows but I do not expect heavy sales.

3. Hadi Karasu:

   As manufacturing costs leveled between China and Turkey, some European firms were (already) considering shifting orders towards here, china has some $170 billion ready-to-wear exports.

4. Sinan Ulgen:

   So the troop deployment must happen right away, but the risk is that Turkey is being sucked into a military game where the only path is more engagement and escalation.

5. Johannes Hahn:

   The Commission hopes to see an end to the escalating violence in Turkey and the return to negotiations on a lasting solution on the Kurdish issue, in the past year, significant shortcomings affected the independence of the judiciary as well as freedom of assembly and freedom of expression, in particular as regards increased pressure and intimidation of journalists.