英和和英

語源

From four +‎ -some.

発音

• (rhotic) IPA: /ˈfɔɹsəm/
• (non-rhotic) IPA: /ˈfɔːsəm/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)səm
• ハイフネーション: four‧some

名詞

foursome (plural foursomes)

1. A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two.
   • 1999, CMJ New Music Report, volume 59, number 631, page 28:

     The fired-up foursome takes itself very seriously, singing politically charged lyrics, which, in the tradition of Strife and Damnation AD, are strategically placed in the middle of slamming, moshable breakdowns.

   • 2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times‎:

     And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.

   • 2011 October, Mike Nettleton, Shotgun Start, Krill Press, →ISBN:

     Also, since the players teed off simultaneously, the infamous "shotgun start," with several foursomes at each tee box, the tournaments ran notoriously slow.

2. A sex act between four people.

同意語

• (group of four): quaternion, tetrad; see also Thesaurus:quartet
• (sex act): fourgie

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