Slang for "Turkey", as pronounced in the Bronx, Joisey, etc.; can mean any of the following:
1) Large, mostly flightless bird, like the one you flattened with your car while driving in the boonies last Saturday.
2) Refers to a person who is a goofball, has done something clumsily, or is generally undesirable -- a "dud".
3) can also refer to a device, object or system which malfunctions, performs badly, or just plain don't work.