Usually means: Rebellious young member challenging establishment.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. young turk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. young Turk: Merriam-Webster
  3. Young Turk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Young Turk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Young Turk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Young Turk, young Turk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Young Turk, young Turk: Wiktionary
  8. Young Turk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Young Turk: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Young Turk: Dictionary.com
  11. Young Turk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Young turk: Rhymezone
  13. young turk: FreeDictionary.org
  14. young turk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Young Turk: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Young Turk: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Young Turk: A Word A Day
  2. Young Turk: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Young Turk)

noun:  (historical) From the late-19th to the early-20th century, a member of a movement that campaigned for reform of the Ottoman Empire.
noun:  (idiomatic, by extension) A young person who agitates for political or other reform; a young person with a rebellious disposition.
noun:  Alternative form of young Turk [(historical) From the late-19th to the early-20th century, a member of a movement that campaigned for reform of the Ottoman Empire.]

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