- [countable]
a large bird that is often kept for its meat, eaten especially at Christmas in the UK and at Thanksgiving in the US 吐绶鸡；火鸡 
We raise turkeys mainly for the Christmas market. 我们饲养火鸡主要是为了供应圣诞节期间的市场。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lean
- Christmas
- Thanksgiving
- …
- breed
- raise
- serve
- …
- gobble
- farm
- breast
- leg
- …
- [uncountable]
meat from a turkey 火鸡肉 roast turkey 烤火鸡肉 the traditional turkey with all the trimmings 配菜齐全的传统火鸡
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lean
- Christmas
- Thanksgiving
- …
- breed
- raise
- serve
- …
- gobble
- farm
- breast
- leg
- …
- [countable] (North American English, informal)
a failure 失败 - [countable] (North American English, informal)
a stupid person who is not useful to anyone 笨蛋；草包 see also cold turkey
Word Originmid 16th cent.: short for turkeycock or turkeyhen, originally applied to the guineafowl (which was imported through Turkey), and then mistakenly to the American bird.
Idioms
talk turkey
- (informal, especially North American English)
to talk about something seriously 郑重其事地谈；严肃认真地谈