all fours

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Noun all fours has 1 sense

all fours(n = noun.act) high-low-jack - card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game; Array

is a kind of card game, cards

has particulars: cinch, auction pitch, pitch, old sledge, seven-up

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all fours, [formerly, All` four".].

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. [1913 Webster]

To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. “This example is on all fours with the other.” “No simile can go on all fours.” Macaulay.

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