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Astroturf
[as-truh-turf]
a brand of carpetlike covering made of vinyl and nylon to resemble turf, used for athletic fields, patios, etc.
Astroturf
/ ˈæٰəʊˌɜː /
noun
a type of grasslike artificial surface used for playing fields and lawns
Word History and Origins
Origin of Astroturf1
Example Sentences
In 2009, when this ritual of mass town hall disruptions really kicked into gear during the Affordable Care Act debate, Democrats would dismiss the protests as “Astroturf” efforts orchestrated by big donors, rather than real grassroots anger.
Indeed, Marsalek would further task Roussev with another project: a hare-brained scheme to initiate a staged protest at the Kazakh Embassy featuring blood dropped from drones, an astroturf human rights campaign involving Just Stop Oil, a letter addressed to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, advertising on London buses and unrealised deepfake pornographic video of the Kazakh president's son.
He had two turns in the nets before he and fellow batter Harry Brook threw balls to each other on a strip of astroturf away from the rest of England's group.
However, it costs money to use the pitch and players must have bespoke astroturf trainers, making it "financially inaccessible for Dinnington people", Mr Smith says.
In your book, you really focus on the ways in which this is another one of those astroturf efforts that pops up everywhere.
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When To Use
Astroturf is a trademarked brand name for a type of artificial surface used for sports fields that’s supposed to look and feel like grass. When used this way, it’s often capitalized. The brand itself styles it as AstroTurf.This sense of the word has come to be frequently used as a generic term for any artificial turf (in the same way that other brand names have been genericized, such as xerox). When used this way, it’s often seen in lowercase (astroturf).Astroturf is also a slang term meaning to fake the appearance of popular support for something, such as a cause or product. The practice of doing so is called astroturfing and a person who does this can be called an astroturfer.Example: One clue that people are trying to astroturf support for something is that a lot of posts about the topic come from new accounts with usernames that look like they were randomly generated.
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