Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of providing or covering with turf.
- noun an implement for cutting, and paring off, turf.
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- verb Present participle of
turf .
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Examples
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Looks like the "astro-turfing" is coming from the left.
No angry mobs, but tough questions at Maryland town hall 2009
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One manager recalls turfing a prostitute out of a footballer's hotel room the night before a game only for the indignant miscreant to protest: "Why are you doing this to me?"
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The illegallooking range or fender, alias turfing iron, a product of Hostages and Co, Engineers, changed feet several times as briars revalvered during the weaponswap?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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One good thing that has come out of Shappsgate (and now Crawleygate?) is that people will perhaps now be less ready to indulge in sock-puppetry/astro-turfing which is a tedious practice.
A little less tribalism, a lot more conversation, please Stephen Tall 2007
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Street dance is becoming the dominant dance form on the planet, and nowhere was its casually graceful appeal better revealed than in a YouTube clip of dancers "turfing" in
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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David Axelrod practically invented astro-turfing, so all the screaming about the TP being top-down, not bottom-up is just misdirection and projection.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Wave of Corporate Writedowns 2010
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"We would love to see the four of them get together and say 2012 is about keeping Australians in their job, not turfing workers into the dole queues," Mr. Carter said.
ANZ to Cut Hundreds of Jobs Gillian Tan 2012
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Therefore, before turfing this minority out of the Senate as if it were a stray dog, ask yourself whether it does not echo the will of a majority that is watching from the sidelines, made up of Brazilians who really matter, at least at election time.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: On the meaning of “Minorities with a majority complex” 2009
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Not only would you be seen as some sort of capitalist monster for turfing out a tenant who would not, or could not pay the rent, but it also takes months to evict someone.
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One minute he's wearing fuchsia waistcoats and sending blue-eyed Catherine gushing love letters and tucking into her stuffed mutton with oysters and plum pudding, and the next well, after she's had 10 of his kids he's turfing the poor woman out to get fat and middle-aged on her own while he goes off shagging some actress.
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