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UK
/tˈɜːki/
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[ US /ˈtɝki/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝki/ ]
NOUN
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a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
some joker is blocking the driveway -
an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned
the first experiment was a real turkey - large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
- flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
How To Use turkey In A Sentence
- Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
- Alma talked a great deal over that meal of roast turkey.
- Remains of domesticated cattle dating to 6,500 B.C. have been found in Turkey and other sites in the Near East.
- After the seacock or gate valve is closed, remove the hose temporarily so that it drains and then use an absorbent cloth or turkey baster to eliminate any residual water in the nipple.
- Steve maintains that the peppers give the bland turkey a piquant flavour.
- As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey.
- His great-uncle started the business in the mid-19th century when he moved to Bradford from Turkey to trade in opium for the pharmaceutical trade, wheat, barley, fur and mohair.
- Buying in a smaller city or coastal town gives them a more balanced lifestyle without the cold turkey of going without any urban facilities. Times, Sunday Times
- President George H.W. Bush was the first to officially pardon a turkey.
- Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan told Turkey's CNBC-e television channel that Ankara would on Thursday begin to truck goods across Iraq and ship them by sea from the southern port of Mersin to Alexandria, Egypt, avoiding Syria. Tension Rises at Turkey-Syria Border