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noun
Foursome  n.  
1.
(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.
2.
A group of four people or objects; as, we need another player to make a foursome for bridge.





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"Foursome" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself to you and suggest a little game of auction bridge for small stakes in order to while away the tedium of travel; and if it should so fall out that Mr. Y and his friend Mr. X chanced to be the only available candidates for a foursome at this fascinating pursuit; and if Mr. Z, being still hostile toward the sobered and repentant Mr. Y, should decline to take on either Mr. Y or his friend X as a partner, but chose you instead; and if on the second or third deal you picked up your cards and ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... followed by others, and then by a foursome dinner at the Carlton, Ralph Fenton being invited to complete the party. Before long Peter was on a pleasant footing of intimacy with the two girls at the flat, though beyond this he did ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... the merest commonplace act of ordinary politeness, but I must repeat, that judged by the standards of your snowy purity, I am not a good man. I do not come to you clean and spotless as a young girl should expect her husband to come to her. Once, playing in a foursome, my ball fell in some long grass. Nobody was near me. We had no caddies, and the others were on the fairway. God knows——" His voice shook. "God knows I struggled against the temptation. But I fell. I kicked the ball on to a little bare mound, from which it was an easy ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
... the least," she said. "A foursome is ever so much more sporting than a threesome. Mr. Heathcroft, you and I will play ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
... ways—the left-handed love me an' Fred Orcutt has for one another. We speak neighborly on the street, an' for years we've played on opposite sides of a ball-a-hole foursome at the Country Club, but either of us would sooner lose a hundred dollars than pay the other ...
— The Challenge of the North • James Hendryx
... to me that Chesterton would heartily approve of my approximation of Sirius and Stentor, of Capella and Cothurnia—the universe balanced. My attention was drawn from the atom Gonium—whose brave little spirit was striving to keep his foursome one—a primordial struggle toward unity of self and division of labor; my consciousness climbed the microscope tube and came to rest upon a slim glass of amber liquid on my laboratory table: a servant had brought a cocktail, for it was New Year's Eve. ...
— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe
... stroll," Tilloughby soberly advised him. "It always stus-stus-starts out as a foursome, and ends ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester


Words linked to "Foursome" :   quartet, 4, quadruplet, Little Joe, gathering, digit, quatern, quaternity, four, quaternion, figure


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