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FOUR-SPOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does four-spot mean?
• FOUR-SPOT (noun)
The noun FOUR-SPOT has 1 sense:
1. a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
Familiarity information: FOUR-SPOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
four; four-spot
Hypernyms ("four-spot" is a kind of...):
dice; die (a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers)
domino (a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots)
spot (a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value)
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