Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Turkey.
- noun A member of the principal ethnic group of modern-day Turkey or, formerly, of the Ottoman Empire.
- noun A member of any of the Turkic-speaking peoples.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Turkey.
- noun Archaic A Muslim; esp., one living in Turkey.
- noun (Zoöl.) The plum weevil. See
Curculio , and Plum weevil, underPlum . - noun (Bot.) A plant of the genus Melocactus; Turk's head. See Melon cactus, under
Melon . - noun (Naut.), (Bot.) See Turk's cap (c) above.
- noun (Bot.) a plant of the genus Ranunculus; crowfoot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of any of the numerous ethnic groups whose majority have lived a nomadic life on the vast Eurasian steppe, speaking Turkic languages.
- noun A person from
Turkey . - noun obsolete A
Muslim . - noun archaic A bloodthirsty and savage person;
vandal ;barbarian . - noun US, slang A
homosexual , assuming the active role inanal sex . - noun A member of a
Mestee group in South Carolina.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The hopes of the Armenians were utterly crushed … As a race and as individuals they feel themselves doomed as long as the Turk is their lord. 7
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"The leopard does not change his spots nor the Ethiop his skin," said Reason – "the Turk is always a Turk."
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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Punter Matt Turk is a 13-year veteran and a three-time Pro Bowler.
Nothing less than the playoffs can satisfy forever .500 Texans 2009
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The Turk is a slow moving episode that seems designed to set up several story arcs rather than tell a story itself.
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Also, when The Turk from the Bingo Show plays washboard it has "Spaz" written across the top.
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Turk is a cop, and a hothead, and over the course of his 30 years as a detective with the NYPD, he and his genial, wisecracking partner, David "Rooster" Fisk (Al Pacino), have put away a lot of scumbags.
Kurt Loder Reviews Al Pacino And Robert De Niro’s ‘Righteous Kill’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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He is likely to join Turk Wendell in middle relief.
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‘A Turk is a brute, but a Christian is a demon’ (Pt6Ch2).
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I called a Turk and a Servian who were in the same compartment to my rescue and for an hour or more carried on a heated discussion in every language.
Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch Michael Moukhanoff
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I thought of the bright, tidy Vlah women, of the civilised Serbs, of the poor Catholic women in Djakova, their clean rooms and intelligent questions; and I asked myself if they were not after all right when they said, "The Young Turk is the son of the Old Turk."
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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