turf
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
turf
- (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- (countable, Ireland) A sod of peat used as fuel.
- (uncountable, slang) The territory claimed by a person, gang, etc. as their own.
- (uncountable, with "the") A racetrack; or the sport of racing horses.
- French: gazon
- German: Rasen
- Italian: erba, zolla erbosa
- Portuguese: gramado
- Russian: дёрн
- Spanish: césped, terreno, territorio
- French: une motte de gazon
- German: Grassode
- Italian: zolla d'erba
- Portuguese: torrão
- Russian: дёрн
- Spanish: tepe
- Portuguese: quebrada
- French: hippodrome, champ de courses
- Portuguese: turfe, hipódromo
- Spanish: hipódromo
turf (turfs, present participle turfing; past and past participle turfed)
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
- (business) 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.
- (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
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