quad suit

See also: quadsuit

English

Alternative forms

• quadsuit

Noun

quad suit (plural quad suits)

1. (fandom slang) A type of fursuit for walking on all fours.
   • 2010, Chris Seabrook, “It Gives me Thunder”: Reflections on “Becoming Fur”, Library and Archives Canada, page 150:

     Figure 42: “Quad Suits”

   • 2014, Barton Grover Howe, The Beach is Back: A Surfland Mystery, Flying Starfish Press, →ISBN:

     It was what costumers call a “quad suit,” a costume in which the performer runs around on all fours. […] Used by street performers and in stage-shows, quad-suit performers have an uncanny knack for looking like the real thing, albeit for short periods of time.

   • 2017, Torie E. Lucas, “Wolves, Dragons, and Ponies… Oh My!”: Fursonas and Stigmatization in the “Human” World, thesis submitted to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, page 70:

     Charlie also discussed his desire for a quad suit. Quad suits further expand on animalistic characteristics by forcing the wearer to hunch over and simulate the act of walking on four legs.

   • 2021, Jessica Ruth Austin, Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 141:

     […] the rarer ‘quad suit’ made for the purpose of being able to walk on all fours.