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quad suit

quad suit noun: a type of fursuit for walking on all fours.

quad suit: a type of fursuit for walking on all fours
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Noun

quad suit (plural quad suits)

  1. (slang) A type of fursuit for walking on all fours.
    • Figure 42: “Quad Suits”2010, Chris Seabrook, “It Gives me Thunder”: Reflections on “Becoming Fur”, Library and Archives Canada, page 150
    • It was what costumers call a “quad suit,” a costume in which the performer runs around on all fours.[…]Used by street performers and in stage-shows, quad-suit performers have an uncanny knack for looking like the real thing, albeit for short periods of time.2014, Barton Grover Howe, The Beach is Back: A Surfland Mystery, Flying Starfish Press, →ISBN

Examples of quad suit in a sentence

  • Charlie also discussed his desire for a quad suit.2017, Torie E. Lucas, “Wolves, Dragons, and Ponies… Oh My!”: Fursonas and Stigmatization in the “Human” World, thesis submitted to the...
  • […]the rarer ‘quad suit’ made for the purpose of being able to walk on all fours.2021, Jessica Ruth Austin, Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 141:

Forms of quad suit

pluralquad suits
alternative formquadsuit

Questions about quad suit

What does quad suit mean?
Quad suit means a type of fursuit for walking on all fours.
How do you use quad suit in a sentence?
Charlie also discussed his desire for a quad suit.
What part of speech is quad suit?
Quad suit is a noun.
What is the plural of quad suit?
The plural of quad suit is quad suits.

Words near quad suit in the dictionary

  1. quad play
  2. quad plays
  3. quad rugby
  4. quad skate
  5. quad skates
  6. quad suit
  7. quad suits
  8. quad-
  9. Quad-City
  10. quad-core
  11. quad-demic

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