on all fours

Speech parts

1. on all fours - Adverb

2. on all fours - Phrase

Meaning

on hands and knees

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

on all-fours

Synonyms

all fours bowed huddled crawling creeping groveling crouched worming bowed down bent over cowered on one's hands and knees crouching down bent down curled up
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Antonyms

passant

Related terms

all fours

Examples

If I had sharp claws I'd get on all fours. And scratch your back for free. Ed Harcourt

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. Christy Mathewson

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work. Voltaire

he got down on all fours to play with his grandson Source: Internet

As with otariids, it can turn its rear flippers forward and move on all fours; however, its swimming technique is more like that of true seals, relying less on flippers and more on sinuous whole body movements. Source: Internet

Apparently unaware of Sabine’s presence, the man kneeled down onto the packed snow and came on all fours, then—to Sabine’s profound surprise—began to crawl slowly onto the frozen river. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

on all fours

Close letter words and terms

on alert on all counts on all four legs on all fours with on all hands on all occasions