brush | contact with something dangerous or undesirable, I had a brush with danger on my way to work, he tried to avoid any brushes with the police |
brush-off | a curt or disdainful rejection |
cold turkey | complete and abrupt withdrawal of all addictive drugs or anything else on which you have become dependent, he quit smoking cold turkey, she quit her job cold turkey |
brush brushing | the act of brushing your hair, he gave his hair a quick brush |
turkey trot | an early ragtime one-step |
brush brushing | the act of brushing your teeth, the dentist recommended two brushes a day |
brush clash encounter skirmish | a minor short-term fight |
buzzard turkey buzzard turkey vulture Cathartes aura | a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States |
turkey Meleagris gallopavo | large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail, widely domesticated for food |
turkey cock gobbler tom tom turkey | male turkey |
ocellated turkey Agriocharis ocellata | wild turkey of Central America and northern South America |
brush turkey Alectura lathami | black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea |
wallaby brush kangaroo | any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos, often brightly colored |
brush-tailed phalanger Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
plain turkey Choriotis australis | popular Australian game bird |
water turkey Anhinga anhinga | blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions |
coyote prairie wolf brush wolf Canis latrans | small wolf native to western North America |
brush | a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) |
nymphalid nymphalid butterfly brush-footed butterfly four-footed butterfly | medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and mucheduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast |
brush-tailed porcupine brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
bristle brush | a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant |
brush | an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle |
brush | conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor |
rigger rigger brush | a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists |
sable sable brush sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
scrub brush scrubbing brush scrubber | a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning |
shaving brush | a brush used to apply lather prior to shaving |
Turkey red alizarine red | a bright orangeed color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye |
brush cut | a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush |
cold turkey | a blunt expression of views, I told him cold turkey |
brush fire | an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes |
turkey bomb dud | an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual, the first experiment was a real turkey, the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned |
brush light touch | momentary contact |
turkey stew | a stew made with turkey |
turkey | flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted |
turkey leg turkey drumstick | the lower joint of the leg of a turkey |
turkey wing | the wing of a turkey |
turkey stuffing | stuffing for turkey |
brush brushwood coppice copse thicket | a dense growth of bushes |
Turkey Republic of Turkey | a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans, on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in , the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in |
Ankara Turkish capital capital of Turkey Angora | the capital of Turkey, located in westentral Turkey, it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats |
joker turkey | a person who does something thoughtless or annoying, some joker is blocking the driveway |
brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
quail bush quail brush white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
sagebrush sage brush | any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium |
bud brush bud sagebrush Artemis spinescens | a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States |
coyote brush coyote bush chaparral broom kidney wort Baccharis pilularis | widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle |
rabbit brush rabbit bush Chrysothamnus nauseosus | pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits, source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo |
shaving-brush tree Pseudobombax ellipticum | tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear |
European turkey oak turkey oak Quercus cerris | large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes |