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  • adjective Constructed from turf.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of turf.

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Examples

  • On Saturday, Anelka was turfed from the French team and flown home.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

  • "Canadians ... just might get a Christmas present next week and have the Conservatives turfed, which is exactly what they deserve for their mismanagement of the economy," Thomas Mulcair, deputy leader New Democratic Party (NDP) stated in an interview with the CBC earlier today.

    Liblogs News Feed 2008

  • In political news, MP (Member of Parliament, my American friends) Carolyn Parrish has been "turfed" (as the media is saying) from the Liberal Party.

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2004

  • They are regarded by the medical industry as "non-payers" to be "turfed" to the county hospital and receive minimal treatment.

    To The Point News Syndicated 2010

  • Only once in the post-war era has the Conservative party been turfed out of office after one term: Ted Heath's defeat in 1974.

    Cuts offer Ed Miliband an open goal Larry Elliott 2010

  • In his first interview since being turfed out of office last week, Luzhkov said he did not intend to flee Russia and any criminal charges.

    Moscow's ousted mayor in 'pro-democracy' campaign Luke Harding in Moscow 2010

  • I realised how superficial it is at that level, and if I hadn't got back to form I bet they would have turfed me out.

    xxHas a team ever been relegated from the same division two years in a row? | The Knowledge 2011

  • Under a leafless mulberry tree, we sat on a turfed bench sharing a mug of steaming chocolate with snow cream.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • -- Getting behind an Astro-turfed movement to litter the rivers and harbors with tea bags to protest President Obama's largest middle-class tax cut in history ... and desperately needing to learn to keep current with what "tea-bagging" means to a lot of people,

    Bye Bipartisanship 2009

  • The new powers that be are subject to being turfed out at the polls in a few years if the voters don't like the results.

    Tyranny by the lake? Charles Lane 2011

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