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turkey leg

n. the lower joint of the leg of a turkey [syn: turkey drumstick]

Usage examples of "turkey leg".

That afternoon she found me in the kitchen, gnawing on a turkey leg.

Justin, with a turkey leg in his hand, tried to guess what Aaron was seeing.

Brewster watched, astonished, as his host tore off a large turkey leg and devoured it in less time than it took him to put honey in his tea.

In fact, there is little to choose between them at this point, although the judge from Baltimore is calling the attention of the other judges to a turkey leg that he claims Miss Violette Shumberger does not clean as neatly as Joel Duffle does his, but the other judges dismiss this as a technicality.

He did, at length and very nicely, until her father came out of the kitchen with a turkey leg in one hand and asked if there were plans to take the dressing out of the oven before it got any blacker.

A figure came around a bend in the corridor, idly tossing a turkey leg into the air with one hand and catching it with the other.