turkey

turkey definitions

• The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food. 

• A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated). 

• With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)). 

• A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer. 

• A failure. 

• An act of throwing three strikes in a row. 

• A foolish or inept person.