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foursome

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four⋅some

  [fawr-suhm, fohr-]
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–noun
1. a company or set of four; two couples; a quartet: to make up a foursome for bridge.
2. Golf.
a. a match between two pairs of players, each of whom plays his or her own ball.
b. Also called Scotch foursome. a match between two pairs of players, in which each pair plays one ball and partners stroke alternately.
–adjective
3. consisting of four persons, things, etc.; performed by or requiring four persons.
Origin:
1540–50; four + -some 2
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four·some   (fôr'səm, fōr'-)   
n.  

  1. A group of four persons or things, especially two couples.

    1. A game, especially a golf match, played by four persons, usually competing in pairs.

    2. The players in such a game.


[Middle English four-som, from Old English fēowra sum, one of four : fēowra, genitive pl. of fēower, four; see four + sum, one; see -some2.]
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