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• four-corners
  four-corners

  noun

  a place where roads cross at right angles; a crossroads.
• Four Corners
  Four Corners

  noun

  a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.

four-corners

¹ American  

[fawr-kawr-nerz, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˈkɔr nərz, ˈfoʊr- /

Or four corners

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a place where roads cross at right angles; a crossroads.

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Four Corners ² American  

noun

1. a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.

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Example Sentences

It’s a strategy that’s similar to the four-corners offense in basketball before the shot clock or a football team taking a knee at the end to prevent their opponent from getting the ball back.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2021

This channel type is rare worldwide but is common in the Colorado Plateau region which is a broad flat area near four-corners where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Atkinson will not bring a set system with him to Brooklyn, no definitive triangle or four-corners offense.

From New York Times • May 16, 2016

For myself, if I were to become a merchant, I would choose a shop at a four-corners in the country, and I would stock from shoe-laces to plows.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried

A suggestion for school premises on a four-corners, and which the pupils enter from three directions, is made in Fig.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)