Определение слова «turkey» на английский

noun

1. (countable, originally, now obsolete) The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

2. (countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.

3. (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

   • All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.

4. (countable) With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).

5. (countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

6. (countable, medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

7. (countable, Australia, US, slang, dated) A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.

8. (countable, US, slang) A failure.

   • That film was a turkey.

9. (countable, US, slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.

   • The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.

10. (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang, derogatory) A prostitute.

    • Shorty think she slick, but everybody know she a turkey.