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turf
noun- the territory controlled by a gang; a sphere of influence US
- I can see us in a big blue Cadillac, the biggest pushers around this turf. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 17, 1952
- — Dale Kramer and Madeline Karr, Teen-Age Gangs, p. 176, 1953
- I say this turf is small, but’s it’s all we got. — Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, 1957
- In this town two blocks away is somebody else’s turf, Irish. — Mickey Spillane, Return of the Hood, p. 92, 1964
- Some of the guys in our gang were scared to go out of our turf and rumble because they didn’t know the backyards and the roofs in other turfs. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 56, 1965
- An Angel on his own turf is as secure as a Mafia runner in a tough Italian neighborhood. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 100, 1966
- Poppa moved us from 111th Street to Italian turf on 114th Street between Second and Third Avenue. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 24, 1967
- We took a beating–their turf, too many guys. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 8, 1975
- They want to keep it on their own turf. Ain’t gonna give it to no Spics, no strangers. — Saturday Night Fever, 1977
- “I thought you were hustling.” (Though this isn’t hustling turf.) — John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, p. 175, 1977
- a job, responsibility, obligation US, 1970
- — American Speech, Fall 1979
- NICK: You like playing games, don’t you? CATHERINE: I’ve got a degree in psych. It comes with the turf. — Basic Instinct, 1992
- the place where a whe-whe lottery game is operated TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1986
- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- the street US
- “Out on the turf folks are wondering who it was got the spic jealous enough to try offing a dude, you know how it is.” — Robert Deane Pharr, Giveadamn Brown, p. 14, 1978
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