Phrase Hound found 96 phrases and 30 compound words that contain turkey. The most common are listed below. Open turkey in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 96
- cold turkeyA sudden and complete withdrawal from a dependent substance, especially a drug.
- Wild TurkeyA brand of bourbon whiskey from Kentucky.
- Republic of TurkeyFormer official name of Turkey: a country in West Asia and Southeastern Europe.
- turkey oakAny of several oaks that grow on dry, sandy barrens.
- turkey-henA female turkey.
- Turkey DayThanksgiving; an American holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
- turkey shootA hunt or hunting competition, using rifles or shotguns, in which wild turkeys are the prey; a marksmanship contest in which a turkey is the prize.
- turkey vultureA common New World vulture, Cathartes aura.
- Turkey CreekA number of streams throughout the United States.
- Turkey StreetA neighbourhood in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England, historically in Middlesex, on a road of the same name (OS grid ref TQ3598).
- bush turkeyThe brush turkey, Alectura lathami.
- Swabian TurkeyA region of southwestern Hungary inhabited by an ethnic German minority who settled there, beginning in the late 1600s after the land was conquered from the Ottoman Empire, from the Palatinate, Hesse, Swabia, Bavaria and elsewhere.
- brush-turkeyAny of several species of large birds, found in Australia and New Guinea, in the megapode (turkey-like) family Megapodiidae.
- walk turkeyTo stagger or move with an ungainly gait.
- Turkey teethUnnaturally white, straightened teeth, especially from an overseas dentist.
- talking turkeypresent participle and gerund of talk turkey
- turkey bushAny of certain Australian bushes of the genus Calytrix.
- Turkey merchantA member of the Levant Company or Turkey Company, an English chartered company formed in 1581 to conduct English trade with Turkey and the Levant or its successors, dissolved in 1825.
- Turkey redA durable red dye originally obtained from madder and later prepared chemically.
- water turkeyAn anhinga, Anhinga anhinga.
- turkey dropAn event in which a turkey is dropped from a high altitude.
- talk turkeyTo talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.
- turkey wingAn ark clam, Arca zebra, native to the Northwest Atlantic and Caribbean.
- turkey trotA dance popular in the first two decades of the 20th century, consisting of exaggerated bird-like movements performed to fast-paced ragtime music.
- Turkey merchantsplural of Turkey merchant: A member of the Levant Company or Turkey Company, an English chartered company formed in 1581 to conduct English trade with Turkey and the Levant or its successors, dissolved in 1825.
Compound words 30
- turduckenA dish, usually roasted, consisting of a deboned turkey stuffed with a deboned duck that has been stuffed with a small deboned chicken, and also containing stuffing.
- TurkeydomThe realm or sphere of the Turks.
- unturkeyA vegetarian turkey substitute.
- chuckeySynonym of turducken: A dish, usually roasted, consisting of a deboned turkey stuffed with a deboned duck that has been stuffed with a small deboned chicken, and also containing stuffing.
- turkeylingA young or little turkey; a poult.
- tofurkeyA meat substitute resembling turkey, usually made from tofu.
- turkeymanA man who farms turkeys.
- turkenSynonym of Naked Neck (“chicken of a breed without feathers on its neck”).
- turkeylessWithout turkeys or their meat.
- antiturkeyDescribing an antibody that reacts with the immunoglobins found in turkeys.