turkeys

noun

Meaning

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.
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.

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