turf
To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfsTo cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
» This is Tom's turf.
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6 sensesTo cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
To cancel a project or product.
The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.
(informal, transitive)To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
(transitive)To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
Examples
13 sentencesThis is Tom's turf.
A country is a gang's turf.
You kind of are on her turf.
A stone is heavy on its own turf.
She turfed her drinking husband out of the house.
deSie warf ihren trinkenden Ehemann aus dem Haus. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass-coFrom Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass-covered earth, greensward”), from Proto-West Germanic *turb (“turf, peat”), from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”).
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Forms
turfs, turfing, turfed, turfedWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.