Astroturf
(ˈæstrəʊtɜːf)
Also astroturf, astro-turf.
[f. Astrodome (see def.) + turf n.1]
A proprietary name for a kind of artificial grass surface (first used in the Astrodome indoor sports stadium at Houston, Texas).
| 1966 Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 16/6 Houston had spent {pstlg}11 million building its mammoth, air-conditioned Astrodome... Now..[they are] spending {pstlg}180,000 on a carpet of synthetic turf, called..Astroturf. 1968 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 3 Dec. tm6/2 Astroturf. For plastic materials in the form of fibers, filaments, ribbon-like extrusions. 1968 Trade Marks Jrnl. 11 Dec. 2164/2 Astroturf... Ropes, string, nets and sacks..tents, awnings (textile), tarpaulins, sails, padding and stuffing materials..and raw fibrous textile materials. Monsanto Company. 1975 Felton & Fowler Best, Worst, & Most Unusual 280 Campsites..carpeted with astroturf. 1975 Telegraph (Brisbane) 2 Oct. 22/5 Near the pool is a putting green of astro-turf. 1977 New Yorker 12 Sept. 59/1 He and Henny..sat down in a couple of lawn chairs on a green Astroturf lawn. 1986 Washington Post 25 Jan. c5/3 He couldn't wait to test the Bourbon Street Theory on the Superdrome astroturf. |
Hence ˈastroturfed a., carpeted with Astroturf.
| 1984 Times 9 Oct. 13/1 They were speaking on the astro-turfed roof terrace of Lloyd Webber's Soho offices. |