turkey leg

1. 1.

   the lower joint of the leg of a turkey

   Synonymsturkey drumstick

   Broaderdrumstick

Questions about turkey leg

What does turkey leg mean?

turkey leg means "the lower joint of the leg of a turkey".

What is another word for turkey leg?

Close synonyms include turkey drumstick. 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 turkey leg a common word?

turkey leg 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.