Synonyms for turkey
ˈtɜr kitur·key

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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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Middle East
   • Country
   • Domestic Fowl
   • Flop
   • Poultry
   • Unpleasant Person

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "turkey":

   turkish, turquie, ankara, turkeys, turk, al-roumy

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1. Soner Cagaptay:

   The two leaders have an affinity for each other as strongman presidents, the Erdogan-Trump part of the U.S.-Turkey relationship is really the only component of it that is currently working right now.

2. Murat Somer:

   They are a kingmaker in these elections because The HDP gets about half of the votes of the Kurdish population in Turkey.

3. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   We must make good use of the opportunities these tough days will present in order to revitalize the Turkey-EU relations. I hope that the EU, which has assumed a discriminative and exclusionist attitude toward our country on various issues to this date, has now understood that we are all [in] the same boat.

4. Lindsay Graham:

   I hope President Trumps right, i hope we can turn the fight against ISIS over to Turkey. I hope that Turkey, when they go into Syria, they wont slaughter The Kurds... If [ Trump ] follows through with this, itd be the biggest mistake of his presidency.

5. Sajjan Gohel:

   This is a situation that unfortunately was almost inevitable at some point, because Turkey has long been accusing Russia of interfering in their airspace, they've threatened them in the past. And even though economic relations between the two countries are strong -- politically, there have been tensions recently.