Usually means: Word containing exactly four letters.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word four-letter word:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. four-letter word: Merriam-Webster
  2. four-letter word: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. four-letter word: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. four-letter word, four-letter word: Collins English Dictionary
  5. four-letter word: Vocabulary.com
  6. four-letter word: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. four-letter word: Wiktionary
  8. four-letter word: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. four-letter word: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. four-letter word: Dictionary.com
  11. Four-letter word: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. four-letter word: Rhymezone
  13. four-letter word: FreeDictionary.org
  14. four-letter word: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. four-letter word: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. four-letter word: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. four-letter word: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See four-letter_words as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (four-letter word)

noun:  A reference to any of several of the strongest English swear words that are also four letters long, especially those composing the so-called seven dirty words.
noun:  (by extension) A swear word or any words considered to be taboo in a given scenario (regardless of length of word).

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