noun Street Slang

turfing

· noun · bay-area

Oakland street dance — gliding, contorting, flexing on the block.

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Definitions

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Oakland-born street dance style — short for 'Taking Up Room on the Floor.' Mixes gliding footwork, bone-breaking contortions, miming, and storytelling. Cousin to hyphy, blew up in the mid-2000s with the Turf Feinz crew.

“Them boys was turfing in the middle of the intersection like the asphalt was a stage.”
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The art of finding a half-plausible medical reason to dump a patient on a different service. Got a hard, slow, complicated case eating your on-call? Turf them to neurology. Or geriatrics. Or anyone. The transferring team gets their bed back; the receiving team gets a problem. Didn't originate with The House of God (Samuel Shem's 1978 novel) but that book is why every intern on the planet knows the word.

“He spent the whole night trying to turf the septic gomer to medicine before his shift ended.”
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turfing In A Sentence

Them boys was turfing in the middle of the intersection like the asphalt was a stage.

Origin & Usage

Oakland, CA in the mid-2000s; acronym popularised by dancers like Jeriel Bey and the Turf Feinz crew.

Variants turf danceturf dancing
Tags #bay-area#oakland#hip-hop#dance#hyphy#urban-lingo

People Also Ask

What is turfing?

Turfing is an Oakland street dance built on gliding, contorting, and flexing on the block.

Where does turfing come from?

Turfing originated in Oakland, California, as a street dance style tied to the local scene.

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