turkeynoun
uk/ˈtɜː.ki/us/ˈtɝː.ki/turkey noun (BIRD)
B1 [ C ] a large bird grown for its meat on farms:
a wild turkey
B1 [ U ] the flesh of this bird used as food:
roast turkey
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Kinds of meat
- bacon
- biltong
- broiler
- capon
- chicken
- filet mignon
- fryer
- gammon
- guinea fowl
- ham
- pancetta
- Parma ham
- partridge
- pastrami
- pheasant
- quail
- squab
- trotter
- veal
- venison
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turkey noun (FAILURE)
[ C ] informal something that fails badly:
His last film was a complete turkey.
[ C ] US informal a stupid or silly person:
What did you do that for, you turkey?
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- parody
- slim pickings
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- underachiever
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Stupid and silly people