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talk turkey

talk turkey verb: to talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.

Verb

talk turkey (third-person singular simple present talks turkey, present participle talking turkey, simple past and past participle talked turkey)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.
    • An Erie car loaded with live turkeys . . . was delivered to the New-York and New-England Railroad yesterday. . . . This first cargo is symbolical of the fact that they will be able hereafter to "talk turkey" to all competitors for New-England business.1881 December 13, “The Erie to ‘Talk Turkey’”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Oct 2008, page 8
    • I'm here to talk turkey. What's your price?1918, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 19, in The Valley of the Giants

talk turkey meaning in Bengali and Kannada

talk turkey in Bengali

স্পষ্টভাবে

talk turkey in Kannada

ಖಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಮಾತನಾಡು, ಇದ್ದುದನ್ನು ಇದ್ದಂತೆ ಹೇಳು

Synonyms of talk turkey

Forms of talk turkey

third-person singular presenttalks turkey
present participletalking turkey
past participletalked turkey
pasttalked turkey

Questions about talk turkey

What does talk turkey mean?
Talk turkey means to talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.
What is talk turkey in Bengali?
Talk turkey in Bengali is স্পষ্টভাবে. See Talk turkey meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is talk turkey?
Talk turkey is a verb.
What is the past tense of talk turkey?
The past tense of talk turkey is talked turkey.

Words near talk turkey in the dictionary

  1. talk to the fist
  2. talk to the hand
  3. talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening
  4. talk trash
  5. talk truth to power
  6. talk turkey
  7. talk up
  8. talk'd
  9. talk-about-able
  10. talk-aholic
  11. talk-aholics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: talk turkey (page history and authors); talk turkey (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); talk turkey (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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