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. Donald Trump:

   Dealing with @LindseyGrahamSC and many members of Congress, including Democrats, about imposing powerful Sanctions on Turkey.

2. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

   This incident...has shown that Turkey both has the capacity and the political will to put an end to such violations, i hope Russia, whose friendship and neighborliness we value, will adopt a more careful stance and Turkish-Russian relations will not be negatively affected.

3. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   If the violence toward the people of Idlib does not stop, this number will increase even more. In that case, Turkey will not carry such a migrant burden on its own, the negative impact of the pressure we will be subjected to will be something that all European nations, especially Greece, will also feel.

4. Liz Cheney:

   Russia, Iran and Turkey, congress must and will act to limit the catastrophic impact of this decision.

5. Robert Amsterdam:

   We're suing them...in respect to these false imprisonments. Mr Gulen has a long history in Turkey of engaging his followers aggressively and falsely imprisoning hundreds of people.