Synonyms of the word turkey


TURKEYBOMB - BUST - COUNTRY - DUD - FIZZLE - FLOP - FOWL - JOKER - LAND - POULTRY - STATE

turkey

  • n. Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.
  • n. (uncountable) The meat or flesh of this bird eaten as food.
  • n. (colloquial) A failure.
  • n. (slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
  • n. (bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
  • n. (obsolete) The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris).
  • n. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
  • n. (dated, slang, US, Australia) A large travel bag; a suitcase; a pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle.

bomb

  • n. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
  • n. (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
  • n. (Britain, slang) A large amount of money, a fortune.
  • n. (social) Something highly effective or attractive.
  • n. (chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
  • n. (obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
  • n. (slang) A woman’s breast.
  • n. (wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first…
  • n. (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To fail dismally.
  • v. (informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
  • v. (obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
  • v. (slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
  • v. (informal) To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
  • adj. (slang) Great, awesome.

bust

  • n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
  • n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
  • v. To break something.
  • v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
  • v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
  • v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
  • v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
  • v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
  • v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
  • n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
  • n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
  • n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
  • n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
  • adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

country

  • n. (archaic) An area of land; a district, region.
  • n. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members…
  • n. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political…
  • n. (usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
  • n. Country music.
  • n. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
  • adj. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
  • adj. Of or connected to country music.

dud

  • n. (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work,…
  • n. (informal) A failure of any kind.
  • n. A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
  • n. (obsolete) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
  • n. A loser, an unlucky person.

fizzle

  • v. To sputter or hiss.
  • v. (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
  • n. A spluttering or hissing sound.
  • n. Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.

flop

  • v. To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
  • v. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  • v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer).
  • v. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise…
  • v. (poker, transitive) To participate in the flop, thus building one's hand with the first community cards.
  • v. (slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
  • n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  • n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  • n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  • adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
  • adv. With a flopping sound.
  • n. (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.

fowl

  • n. (archaic) A bird.
  • n. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
  • n. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes…
  • v. To hunt fowl.
  • adj. (obsolete) foul.

joker

  • n. A person who makes jokes.
  • n. (slang) A funny person.
  • n. A jester.
  • n. A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card…
  • n. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
  • n. (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.

land

  • n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
  • n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings…
  • n. A country or region.
  • n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  • n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
  • n. A general country, state, or territory.
  • n. (often in combination) realm, domain.
  • n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is…
  • n. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
  • n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  • n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  • n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
  • n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
  • n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called…
  • n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is…
  • v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
  • v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
  • v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
  • v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to land.
  • v. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver.
  • adj. Of or relating to land.
  • adj. Residing or growing on land.
  • n. lant; urine.

poultry

  • n. domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
  • n. the meat from a domestic fowl.

state

  • n. A polity.
  • n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
  • n. High social standing or circumstance.
  • n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
  • v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
  • v. (transitive) To make known.
  • adj. (obsolete) stately.

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