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Definitions

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. slang a playing card with eight pips on the face; an eight.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face

Examples

  • “The spirits couldn't tell her where the old man could nail a job or find a gold-mine or mark an eight-spot in Chinese lottery.”

    Chapter 14

  • “Chicago exploded for eight runs in the bottom of the second after the Indians had posted an eight-spot in the top of the inning.”

    American League Baseball - Indians vs. White Sox

  • “The spirits couldn't tell her where the old man could nail a job or find a gold mine or mark an eight-spot in Chinese lottery.”

    Chapter 14

  • “It was like finessing an eight-spot and winning out.”

    The Man in Lower Ten

  • “I'd rather be High Lord Chancellor of a cow-camp than the eight-spot in a queen-high flush.”

    Heart of the West [Annotated]

  • “Their eight-spot Thursday - with all the runs coming in the final four innings - was exactly half of the 16 they had scored in the previous nine games combined.”

    SFGate: Top News Stories

  • “The Orange and White really put the game out of reach in the sixth frame, when they threw an eight-spot up on the scoreboard, capped off by Thurber's pinch-hit slam.”

    WBIR.com - News

  • “I might have given up an eight-spot instead of a four-spot.”

    SI.com

  • “Despite only getting 12 games so far from Carlos Boozer, 28 from Deron Williams, 33 form Memo Okur, and 35 from Paul Millsap, the Jazz are currently at 24-17 in the West and sit in the ever so important eight-spot out West.”

    Sports Central | Articles and Columns

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