Definitions for turkey

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

(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)

(a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway")

(flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted)

(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")