All Fours Definition

noun
Any of several card games resembling whist and in which points are scored in four ways: for the high trump, the low trump, the jack of trumps, and the game.
American Heritage
Any of several card games in which four points may be scored during the play of a hand, for winning the high trump, low trump, and jack of trumps, and for “game” (the largest high-card count)
Webster's New World

The four legs of a quadruped.

Wiktionary

The four limbs of a primate.

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A card game similar to whist.

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All Fours Sentence Examples

  • It may be seen how the arrangement of limbs suited for going on all-fours belongs rather to the apes than to man, and walking on the soles of the feet rather to man than the apes.

  • The bear dropped down on all fours and growled at her offspring, who dashed back into the trees.

  • Upon noticing Jackson, the dog dropped to all fours and approached him slowly.

  • He hit the floor on all fours and snapped at the hen as she rolled by.

  • Opening out of this and the other chambers, and connecting them together, are a series of low winding passages or cuniculi, just large enough for a man to creep through on all fours.

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AALALL

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SRSURS

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