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four-by-fours

four-by-fours is the plural of four-by-four.

Meaning of four-by-four

Noun

four-by-four (plural four-by-fours)

  1. A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a four-speed transmission.
  2. A four-wheel vehicle with four-wheel-drive.
  3. (broadly) any four-wheel-drive vehicle.
  4. A four-inch per four-inch gauze or similar material.
  5. (British, slang) A woman who has had four children by four different fathers.

Questions about four-by-fours

What is four-by-fours the plural of?
Four-by-fours is the plural of four-by-four.

Words near four-by-fours in the dictionary

  1. four-baggers
  2. four-ball
  3. four-balls
  4. four-belt
  5. four-by-four
  6. four-by-fours
  7. four-by-two
  8. four-by-twos
  9. Four-Corner
  10. four-current
  11. four-currents

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Adapted from Wiktionary: four-by-fours (page history and authors); four-by-four (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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