A government ploy that is destroying American discourse.
So many company's astroturfing is hard to discern, so we must be that much more careful not to get fooled by it.
by Ereck Flowers August 16, 2018
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faux-grassroots promotion, usually hiding a corporate advertising or marketing movement. May also cover corporate graffiti.
The recent "leaking" of fall pilots to YouTube is shameless astroturf promotion.
by Dancomono July 17, 2006
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Political term that means pseudo-equal rights group or artifcial equal rights group. This groups or organizations tend to call them selves a organization that supports freedom and equality; however that is nothing more a backdrop for a biased unequal agenda.
Groups like Accuracy In Academia and Students for Academic Freedom are good exaples of Astroturf Groups. They put on the identity of being a organization that supports equality, but actually are trying to advance a political bias

"That Astroturf Group are really annoying" Bob said.
by Bob_the_Patriot October 23, 2007
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A subset of Bluegrass's Newgrass movement, astroturf is equivalent to vaporwave bluegrass together. Or any pairs of microgenres within vaporwave and various style of bluegrass. This genre was a result of the Newgrass movement encouraging artists to explore further into ways to use technology mixed with roots music. Astroturf is a play on words because turf is literally just synthetic grass.
I got invited to a house show party and my friend said there'd be an Astroturf band there, and she explained that it was just vaporwave bluegrass.
by soror64 March 18, 2019
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