foursome

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English

Etymology

From four +‎ -some.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: awesome (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

foursome (plural foursomes)

  1. 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:
      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.
  2. A sex act between four people.

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