Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A four-wheel-drive motor vehicle.
- noun A length of lumber that is 4 inches thick and 4 inches wide, or that is trimmed to slightly smaller dimensions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
four-wheel-drive vehicle with a four-speedtransmission . - noun A four-wheel vehicle with four-wheel-drive.
- noun By extension, any four-wheel-drive vehicle.
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Examples
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If the wrong people had seen the four-by-four—if the wrong people knew an American officer was eating dinner here, along with two spooks, a tribal sheikh, and a couple of interlopers, then this would be the moment to attack.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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That is how Mohamad and I ended up in the back of a four-by-four with Alan and a Philadelphia judge named Daniel L. Rubini, roaring down the middle of Palestine Street in a two-car convoy that was painfully, conspicuously, deafeningly American.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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If the wrong people had seen the four-by-four—if the wrong people knew an American officer was eating dinner here, along with two spooks, a tribal sheikh, and a couple of interlopers, then this would be the moment to attack.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Witnesses say it appears the kidnappers knew who they were looking for and forced the men into a four-by-four vehicle.
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Witnesses say it appears the kidnappers knew who they were looking for and forced the men into a four-by-four vehicle.
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✒Thanks to WWD Media in the US for pointing out that Condé Nast Traveler has hot news for posh voyagers in the American version's April issue: Libya is one of its "15 best places to see right now" the Roman ruins are nice, it seems, as is traversing the Sahara "by four-by-four or camel".
Media Monkey's Diary 2011
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That is how Mohamad and I ended up in the back of a four-by-four with Alan and a Philadelphia judge named Daniel L. Rubini, roaring down the middle of Palestine Street in a two-car convoy that was painfully, conspicuously, deafeningly American.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Witnesses say it appears the kidnappers knew who they were looking for and forced the men into a four-by-four vehicle.
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Media reports said Queen Elizabeth II's second son hit the officer as he was driving his four-by-four through the palace gates.
Prince Andrew Allegedly Hits Police Officer With His Car 2010
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"Sadly, the four-by-four has became an acceptable alternative to Mercedes or BMW for the pompous, self-important driver," Mr. King told the London Daily Mail in 2004.
Charles Spencer King, British engineer who helped create Range Rover, dies at 85 2010
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