[i.e., all four cards.]
1. A game at cards, played by two; ‘so named from the four particulars by which it is reckoned, and which, joined in the hand of either of the parties, are said to make all-fours. The all four are high, low, Jack, and the game.’ Johnson.
1707. Farquhar, Beaux’ Strat., V. i. 57. Can you play at Whiste, Sir? No, truly, Sir. Nor at all-fours? Neither.
1775. Sheridan, St. Patrick’s Day, I. ii. 293. To drink bohea tea, and play at allfours on a drum head.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. (1854), I. 13. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, and cribbage.
2. A game at dominoes, in which points are scored only when the sum of the pips at the two extremes are four or a multiple thereof.
