turkey

Noun

• 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
    

• flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
  • some joker is blocking the driveway
    

• 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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bomb , dud , joker , Turkey , Republic of Turkey , Meleagris gallopavo