Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun slang a playing card with eight pips on the face; an eight.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face
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Examples
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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 2010
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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.
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It was like finessing an eight-spot and winning out.
The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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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 1915
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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.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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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] O. Henry 1886
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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 Associated Press 2011
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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 Associated Press 2011
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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 2010
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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 2010
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