turkey

Universal Words noun (plural turkeys) 1 [C] a large bird that is often kept for its meat, eaten especially at Christmas in Britain and at Thanksgiving in the US 2 [U] meat from a turkey: roast turkey 3 [C] (AmE, informal) a failure: His latest movie is a real turkey. 4 [C] (AmE, informal) a stupid or useless person seealsoCOLDTURKEY IDIOMS see TALKv.