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[for to]{prep. phr.}, {dialect} So that you can; to. •/Simple Simon went a-fishing for to catch a whale./ Syn.: IN ORDER TO.

[forty winks]{n. phr.}, {informal} A short period of sleep; a nap. •/When the truck driver felt sleepy, he stopped by the side of the road to catch forty winks./ Compare: SHUT-EYE.

[forward] See: BACKWARD AND FORWARD, LOOK FORWARD TO, PUT ONE’S BEST FOOT FORWARD.

[forward wall]{n.} The line of a football team. •/Princeton 's line outplayed the Rutgers forward wall./

[for you] See: THAT’S --- FOR YOU.

[foul ball]{n.} A batted baseball that lands outside the foul line. •/Mickey hit a long foul ball that landed on the roof./

[foul line]{n.} 1. Either of two lines separating fair from foul ground in baseball. •/Willie hit the ball just inside the foul line for a double./ 2. A line across the upper end of a bowling alley across which a bowler must not step. •/John bowled a strike but it didn’t count because he stepped over the foul line./ 3. A line on the floor in front of the basket in basketball, from which foul shots are made. •/Tony scored eight points from the foul line./

[foul out]{v.} 1. To make an out in baseball by hitting a foul fly ball that is caught. •/He fouled out to the catcher./ 2. To be forced to leave a basketball game because of getting more than the limit number of personal fouls. •/A professional basketball player is allowed six personal fouls before fouling out./

[foul play]{n.} Treachery; a criminal act (such as murder). •/After they discovered the dead body, the police suspected foul play./ •/"She must have met with foul play," the chief inspector said when they couldn’t find the 12-year-old girl who had disappeared./

[foul shot]{n.} A free throw given in basketball to a player who has been fouled. •/Tony was given two foul shots when he was fouled while trying to shoot./ Compare: FIELD GOAL 2, FREE THROW.

[foul up]{v.}, {informal} 1. To make dirty. •/The birds fouled up his newly washed car./ 2. To tangle up. •/He tried to throw a lasso but he got the rope all fouled up./ 3. To ruin or spoil by stupid mistakes; botch. •/He fouled the whole play up by forgetting his part./ 4. To make a mistake; to blunder. •/Blue suit and brown socks! He had fouled up again./ 5. To go wrong. •/Why do some people foul up and become criminals?/

[foul-up]{n.} (stress on "foul") 1. {informal} A confused situation; confusion; mistake. •/The luncheon was handled with only one or two foul-ups./ 2. {informal} A breakdown. •/There was a foul-up in his car’s steering mechanism./ 3. {slang} A person who fouls up or mixes things. •/He had gotten a reputation as a foul-up./

[foundation garment]{n.} A close-fitting garment designed for women to wear underneath their clothes to make them look slim; a piece of woman’s underwear. •/Jane wears a foundation garment under her evening dress./

[four] See: HIT ON ALL FOUR, ON ALL FOURS.

[four bits]{n.}, {slang} Fifty cents. •/Tickets to the play are four bits," said Bill./ Compare: TWO BITS.

[four corners]{n.} All parts of a place. •/People came from the four corners of the world to see him./ •/He has been to the four corners of the country./ Compare: ALL OVER.

[four-eyes]{n.}, {slang} A person who wears glasses. — A rude expression, •/Hey, four-eyes, come over here./

[four-leaf clover]{n.} A small green plant with four leaves which many people think means good luck because clover plants usually have three leaves. •/John has a four-leaf clover in his pocket. He thinks he will have good luck now./

[fourth class]{n.} A class of mail that is not sealed and weighs a pound or more, that includes things that are bought and sold and sent in the mail, and printed things that are not second or third class mail. •/Bill sent away 98 cereal box tops and a dollar and got back a sheriff’s badge and gun in the mail by fourth class./

[fourth-class(1)]{adj.} Belonging to the fourth class of mail. •/The package weighed a pound and a half, so it had to be sent by fourth-class mail./

[fourth-class(2)]{adv.} By fourth-class mail. •/How did the company mail the package? Fourth-class./

[fourth world]{n.}, {informal} The poor nations of the world, as distinguished from the oil-rich nations of the third world. •/Sri Lanka will never join OPEC, since it is a fourth world nation./

[fowl] See: NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL.

[fox and geese]{n. phr.} A tag game in which the player representing the fox tries to catch one of the players representing geese as they run around the outside of a circle.

[fraidy-cat] or [fraid-cat] or [scaredy-cat] or [scared cat]{n.}, {informal} A shy person; someone who is easily frightened. — Usually used by or to children. •/Tom was a fraidy-cat and wouldn’t go in the water./