turfing

Verb

turf (third-person singular simple present turfs, present participle turfing, simple past and past participle turfed)

1. To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
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.
3. To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
   • Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
4. To cancel a project or product.
   • The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.
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.1968, Eric Herne, The Haunted Islands, page 18
6. (transitive, medical slang) 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).1996, Jeffrey E. Nash, James M. Calonico, The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology, page 139

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