"hand turkey" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hand turkeys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hand turkey (plural hand turkeys)
  1. (informal) A drawing of a turkey created by tracing the outline of a splayed hand, the fingers representing its back feathers and the thumb its head and neck. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-hand_turkey-en-noun-7I~d7J5w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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