Meaning of turf out | Babel Free

Definitions

To remove or eject from a place.

informal, transitive, usually

Examples

“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.”

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