1. (

• turkey ,
• Meleagris_gallopavo

) large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food ;

2. (

• Turkey ,
• Republic_of_Turkey

) 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 ;

3. (

• joker ,
• turkey

) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway" ;

4. (

• turkey

) flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted ;

5. (

• turkey ,
• bomb ,
• dud

) 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" ;