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• 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

Species M. gallopavo M. ocellata A turkey is either one of two species of large birds in the genus Meleagris. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Binomial name Alectura lathami Gray, 1831 The Australian Brush-turkey Alectura lathami, also frequently called the Scrub Turkey, is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to Illawarra in New South Wales. ... Binomial name Ardeotis australis (Gray, 1829) The Australian Bustard, Ardeotis australis, is a large ground bird of grassland, woodland and open agricultural country across northern Australia and southern New Guinea. ... Turkey is a town located in Sampson County, North Carolina. ... Turkey is a city located in Hall County, Texas. ... Bowling ball and two pins Ten-pin bowling lane Automatic Scorer by Brunswick Specialized computers replaced hand scoring beginning 1970s. ... For other uses of Cold turkey, see Cold turkey (disambiguation). ... Native Americans are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska. ... Cleopatra is the biggest box-office bomb of all time. ... Citizens band radio (CB) is, in the United States, a system of short distance radio communication between individuals on a selection of 40 channels within the single 27 MHz (11 meter) band. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... Sheet music cover for Zip Coon, 1830s. ...

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

Little Turkey was the leading chief of the Cherokee nation from 1792 to 1801. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Stalking Turkey. ... Turkey Tayac (1895 – 1978) was a Piscataway A person who claimed to be an Indian leader and herbal doctor, born in Charles County, Maryland with the Christian name Philip Sheridan Proctor. ...

See also

• Turk

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