Definition of "foursome" []

• A group of four persons or things, especially two couples. (noun)
• A game, especially a golf match, played by four persons, usually competing in pairs. (noun)
• The players in such a game. (noun)

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• "Perry was on the brink of a spectacular victory with Jim Furyk over Garcia and Westwood in foursome play."
• "New to the foursome is Louis (Jennifer Hudson), who is conspicuous both in her in appearance and in her targeted, jarring service to the plot."
• "Subtitled: “Talk Show Interviews with Coatlicue the Aztec Goddess, Malinche the Maligned, the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Llorona: The Wailer,” the fierce foursome is a celebration of the dark goddesses — Mexican figures that have been imprisoned inside the symbols of (respectively) destruction, betrayal, saintliness and errant motherhood."