Turf meaning
Turf is defined as a surface or layer of the Earth with grass plants, sod or peat, or the space for a horse race, or slang for someone's home territory.
An example of turf is a patch of lawn.
An example of turf is a baseball team's home field.
An example of turf is the area that a gang sees as their own.
noun
Turf is defined as to cover with earth, plants, sod or peat.
An example of turf is to change a cemented area into grass.
verb
A piece cut from a layer of earth or sod.
noun
A piece of peat that is burned for use as fuel.
noun
To spread with turf.
Turfed the front yard.
verb
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To throw out, as from a place or position; eject.
verb
To kill.
verb
Peat, or a piece of it for use as fuel.
noun
A track for horse racing; also, the sport of horse racing.
noun
To cover with turf.
verb
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To create a lawn by laying turfs.
verb
(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.
verb
turf out
- To throw out; remove, discard, dismiss, etc.
idiom
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of turf
- Middle English from Old English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass covered earth, greensward"), from Proto-Germanic *turbaz (“turf, lawn"), from Proto-Indo-European *dorbh- (“tuft, grass"). Cognate with Dutch turf (“turf"), Low German torf (“turf"), German dialectal Turbe (“turf"), German Torf (“peat, turf"), Swedish torf (“turf"), Icelandic torf (“turf"), Sanskrit [script?] (darbha, “a kind of grass").
From Wiktionary