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Synonyms for turkey
ˈtɜr kitur·key

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  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. Aberdeen Asset Management:

    There a bit of market pressure on Turkey, all things (reports on central bank pressure) make you a little uncomfortable.

  2. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

    Turkey will not be run from a house in Pennsylvania, turkey is not a country that can be bought or sold cheaply.

  3. James Lankford:

    Turkey is an important NATO ally and willing partner in addressing a number of U.S. national security priorities, it's concerning that Turkey would seek close defense cooperation with Russia, whose authoritarian ruler seeks to undermine NATO and U.S. interests at every turn.

  4. Tayyip Erdogan:

    We have concerns emergency rule may increasingly be used against the true opposition in Turkey, those outside the Gulen movement.

  5. French President Francois Hollande:

    As Turkey is making an effort to take in refugees -- who will not come to Europe -- it's reasonable that Turkey receive help from Europe to accommodate those refugees.


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