turf war
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
The phrase may have originated as a reference to the game of American football where two teams confront each other on a field of grass or turf.(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɚf woɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɜːf wɔː/
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Noun edit
- A dispute over territory between rival gangs.
- (idiomatic) A fight or confrontation between two divisions or parties for access to resources or capital.
- 2014 July 18, Thomas Christie, Notional Identities: Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies[1], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 202:
- It's a fascinating distinction, and one that also has the neat effect of moving the debate on from the contentious territory of the SF/litfic turfwar into that of value-neutral literary theory.