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all-fours

all-fours is the alternative form of all fours.

Meaning of all fours

Noun

all fours

  1. The four legs of a quadruped.
  2. The four limbs of a primate.
    • to be on all fours
  3. A card game similar to whist.
    • 'Twas a bad leg allowed me to read the Pilgrim's Progress, and Mark Clark learnt All-Fours in a whitlow.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
  4. A certain game of dominos.

Phrases with all-fours

Questions about all-fours

What is all-fours the alternative form of?
All-fours is the alternative form of all fours.

Words near all-fours in the dictionary

  1. all-figure number
  2. all-figure numbers
  3. all-fire
  4. all-fired
  5. all-firedly
  6. all-fours
  7. all-gender
  8. all-girls
  9. all-good
  10. all-hail
  11. all-hailed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: all-fours (page history and authors); all fours (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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