Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of four persons or things, especially two couples.
- noun An activity involving four people, such as a golf match.
from The Century Dictionary.
- By fours; with four: said of anything in which four act together:
- noun A golf match in which four persons engage, two playing against the other two.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Scot. or Golf Consisting of four; requiring four participants.
- noun (Golf) A game between four players, with two on each side and each side playing but one ball, the partners striking alternately. It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.
- noun A group of four people or objects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A group of four, a
quartet or a game (such asgolf ) played by four players, especially by two teams of two. - noun A
fourgie , sex between four people
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun four people considered as a unit
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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New to the foursome is Louis (Jennifer Hudson), who is conspicuous both in her in appearance and in her targeted, jarring service to the plot.
Kevin's Review: Sex and the City - Less Sex, More Drama « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Perry was on the brink of a spectacular victory with Jim Furyk over Garcia and Westwood in foursome play.
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Subtitled: “Talk Show Interviews with Coatlicue the Aztec Goddess, Malinche the Maligned, the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Llorona: The Wailer,” the fierce foursome is a celebration of the dark goddesses — Mexican figures that have been imprisoned inside the symbols of (respectively) destruction, betrayal, saintliness and errant motherhood.
Agua Santa: Holy Water : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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They were an imposing foursome from the opening tip.
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The word foursome is often misused today as a description of four players in the same group.
The Union - All Categories John Renslow Get Into Golf 2008
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The foursome is soon returning to Las Vegas to perform the “Sgt. Pepper’s” album live at a residency.
“Cheap Trick packs Ravinia for hits, deep cuts and Beatles’ covers” | CheapTrick.com 2010
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I’ve been thinking that our happy little foursome is so balanced.
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Completing the foursome was a sixty-year-old blacksmith and jack of all trades named Cornbury S.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Completing the foursome was a sixty-year-old blacksmith and jack of all trades named Cornbury S.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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A foursome was the last thing the boy needed and if the bloody girl mentioned chairs again he'd bloody brain her.
The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991
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