turkey

noun

• The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
• A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).
• The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

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

• With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the bush turkey or brush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
• An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
• A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
• A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
• A failure.

  "That film was a turkey."

• (usually mildly) A foolish or inept person.

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