English Dictionary

turf

IPA（発音記号）

/tɚf/

動詞

くだけた表現 他動詞

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.

日本語の意味

芝生を敷く、芝生で覆う。また、芝生を用いて庭を作る。 / (アルティメットフリスビー) フリスビーを狙った目標よりもかなり手前に投げ、通常は投じた地点から約10ヤード以内で地面に落とす

They decided to turf the backyard before the summer party.

彼らは夏のパーティーの前に裏庭に芝を張ることにした。

意味（1）

To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

(business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.

Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.

意味（4）

(business) To cancel a project or product.

The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.

意味（5）

(informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.

He has the mistaken idea that he is a lap dog, and loves to be nursed, especially by ladies, but eighty-five pounds on your lap is no joke, and he can never understand why he gets turfed off.

意味（6）

(medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.

Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me! […] They want to transfer responsibility for her to another branch of the hospital (turf her).

turfs （ present singular third-person ）

turfing （ participle present ）

turfed （ participle past ）

turfed （ past ）