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fourhanded

fourhanded

7.7
A card game played by four people
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɔrˌhændɪd/
: a cuatro manos
  • We played a fourhanded game of bridge last night.

Examples

  • The tournament only allows fourhanded poker matches for this round.

  • A fourhanded session requires exactly four people to participate.

  • Let's play a fourhanded game tonight!

  • We played a fourhanded game of bridge last night.

  • A fourhanded game of poker requires four players to compete.

  • The rules for this tournament specify that only fourhanded card games are allowed.

  • We had a great time playing a fourhanded session of bridge on Saturday.

Surface Forms

fourhanded positive

Morphology

fourhanded = four + handed (transparent) = four + ed

The final formation is a compound of 'four' + 'handed' where '-handed' clearly denotes the number of players, so the meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word fourhanded comes from the parts four and hand, where hand in card games means a player's cards or the player themselves. So fourhanded is a short way to say a game is 'for four' players and needs four people to play.