turf
/tɝf/ verb C2- To 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.
- To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
He/she/it turfs · Past turfed · Past participle turfed · -ing form turfing
Verb forms
- Base form
- turf
- He/she/it
- turfs
- Past
- turfed
- Past participle
- turfed
- -ing form
- turfing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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In the turf a hole I found
Amateur sport is free from betting, but a good deal of outside betting goes on among the public, and it is possible that it might be worth someone’s while to get at a player as the ruffians of the turf get at a race-horse.
The avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf, and the house lay before us.
“In the court are orange-trees in pots, turf, and clumps of flowers.”
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