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turf out en · VERB
Meanings
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(informal, of a person, transitive, usually) To remove or eject from a place.
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.
1994 June 28, “Opinion: Now, Focus the President”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jul 2012: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.
2025 October 30, Robert Booth, “Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:I'm feeling a bit pipped this morning—got turfed out of bed at seven o'clock and all that.
1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in Jill the Reckless:Malaysia's drive to turf out illegal foreign workers turns disastrous.
2002 September 9, “Malaysia Gives Illegals the Boot”, in Time:
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Synonyms
expel · kick out · throw out