tom turkey

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   male turkey

   Synonymsturkey cockgobblertom

   Broaderturkey

Questions about tom turkey

What does tom turkey mean?

tom turkey means "male turkey".

What is another word for tom turkey?

Close synonyms include turkey cock, gobbler, tom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tom turkey a common word?

tom turkey is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.