Turkey (disambiguation)
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Turkey may refer to:
- Turkey, a country in Southeastern Europe and western Asia
- Turkey (bird), a large gamebird, native to North America.
- Meat from the Domesticated turkey, used for food
- two different kinds of birds endemic to Australia, the "Brush Turkey", and the Australian Bustard, sometimes also called the "Australian Turkey".
- Turkey, North Carolina, a town in the United States of America
- Turkey, Texas, a town in the United States of America
- A Turkey in bowling, refers to three consecutive strikes.
- Cold turkey, a withdrawal from drug addiction without gradual tapering off usage.
- A derogatory term for Native Americans in relation to their cermonial songs and feather headdresses.
- A "turkey" (slang): a useless thing, unwise purchase, a box office bomb in entertainment, or a foolish or despicable person in CB Radio jargon.
- Turkey movies are exploitative B-films, most often featuring sub-par sex, violence and gore.
- the American folk dance Turkey in the Straw
[edit] People
- Little Turkey (d.1811), a Cherokee chief
- Oconostota (1710-1780), also known as Stalking Turkey, a Cherokee chief
- Turkey Tayac (1895-1978), a Piscataway Indian Nation leader