Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

turf out

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: tur-f out
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To remove or eject from a place.

Informal; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"I'm feeling a bit pipped this morning—got turfed out of bed at seven o'clock and all that."
"Mr. Gergen was supposed to give the White House a communications strategy. He did apply a few Band-Aids before longtime Clinton aides turfed him out of the inner circle."
"Malaysia's drive to turf out illegal foreign workers turns disastrous."
"Then when the BBC this week reminded the world of a picture taken in the garden of Royal Lodge, the Windsor home Andrew is being turfed out of, which featured not only Epstein and Maxwell, both convicted child sex offenders, but also the convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, it cannot have been difficult to decide to deliver the final blow."

Usage

Inflected Forms

turfs out (present, singular) turfing out (participle, present) turfed out (participle, past) turfed out (past)

Synonyms

expel kick out throw out eject chuck out exclude boot out turn out

Questions

What does turf out mean?: To remove or eject from a place.

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