four square

Noun

Meaning

four square (uncountable)

A sport played by four players where players have to hit a ball into other people's squares, and attempt to make a return hit.

four-square (uncountable)

Alternative spelling of foursquare

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

four-square

Examples

We scientists are clever - too clever - are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it! Richard Feynman

Lagrange's four-square theorem of 1770 states that every natural number is the sum of at most four squares. Source: Internet

Thirteen victims had been identified by then in the quiet and sparsely populated Nova Scotia seaside community of Portapique where police set up a four-square kilometre (1.5 square mile) perimeter to try to contain the suspect. Source: Internet

The plot as in the first operas centers on love and heroism; the music is relatively 'four-square' and oriented to sensation and spectacle. Source: Internet

One of only two black students at the time in her intermediate school, she remembers playing four-square one day during recess early in the school year. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

four sheets to the wind Four Shire Stone Four Species four squared four tabs four tens