The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word QUAD
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More clues leading to the result QUAD
- Leader abandons group of soldiers in parade ground
- Topless soldiers showing muscle
- Team’s heading off court
- Courtyard, where first of crew lost
- Four-footer throws away fruit, stoned in courtyard
- Duke, as before, in court
- One of four in court
- One in four gets a bike of sorts
- Square team discharging sulphur
- Leader leaves group of soldiers in square
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What does QUAD mean?
QUAD noun- Four shots of espresso.
- A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.
- Having four shots of espresso.
- A quadrangle (courtyard).
- A quadruplet (infant).
- A quadrilateral.
- The quadriceps muscle.
- A quadriplegic person.
- A quadrupel beer.
- A quadcopter.
- Of or relating to quads.
- A quad bike (from quadricycle)
- Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (1015 BTU)
- To ride a quad bike
- A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
- (phototypesetting and digital typesetting) A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right or quad centre.
- To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
- (phototypesetting and digital typesetting) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.