foursome
English
| [a], [b] ← 3 | 4 | 5 → |
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| Cardinal: four Ordinal: fourth Abbreviated ordinal: 4th Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary Latinate reverse order ordinal: preantepenultimate Adverbial: four times Multiplier: fourfold Latinate multiplier: quadruple Distributive: quadruply Germanic collective: foursome Collective of n parts: quadruplet Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera- Latinate collective prefix: quadri- Fractional: quarter, fourth Elemental: quadruplet Greek prefix: tetarto- Number of musicians: quartet Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad | ||
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɹsəm/
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːsəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)səm
- Hyphenation: four‧some
Noun
foursome (plural foursomes)
- A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two.
- 1999, CMJ New Music Report, volume 59, number 631, page 28:
- The fired-up foursome takes itself very seriously, singing politically charged lyrics, which, in the tradition of Strife and Damnation AD, are strategically placed in the middle of slamming, moshable breakdowns.
- 2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times[1]:
- And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.
- 2011 October, Mike Nettleton, Shotgun Start, Krill Press, →ISBN:
- Also, since the players teed off simultaneously, the infamous "shotgun start," with several foursomes at each tee box, the tournaments ran notoriously slow.
- A sex act between four people.
Synonyms
- (group of four): quaternion, tetrad; see also Thesaurus:quartet
- (sex act): fourgie
Derived terms
Translations
group of four
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sex act between four people