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  • noun a domino or die whose upward face shows one pip

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Examples

  • Indonesia is determinedly if sometimes inconsistently pushing forward with the fight against business-stifling corruption with a slightly higher score and a one-spot improvement in its ranking, to 115.

    Freeing Asia's Entrepreneurs Joseph Sternberg 2012

  • There are tiny one-spot paintings, paintings with spots at their corners, ones covered with rank after rank of hundreds, if not thousands, of little circles.

    Full circle: the endless attraction of Damien Hirst's spot paintings 2012

  • Also, Wesley, or even Mashburn, can play the one-spot in this set to take advantage of the matchups.

    Hornets load Davis with options 2000

  • If a die be cast a great number of times, it will be found that the numbers shown will be about equal, that is, there will be an equal number of one-spot, two-spot, etc., coming uppermost.

    The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Three Initiates

  • "Stay with me li'l 'ol' one-spot, and I'll take you home."

    Triple Spies 1918

  • "She blew E17051431 for mills and round steak," says the one-spot.

    The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • At 6-3, Maze provides size and quickness to the one-spot, but not great shooting.

    A Sea Of Blue Truzenzuzex 2010

  • USA Nationals, etc. To jeopardize that for one-spot up on the totem pole at IC4As is not worth it.

    SUAthletics.com Latest Stories 2010

  • I wondered if an article would appear announcing that us working-class folks had crossed the line back at a one-spot jump in corporate taxes and a 0.2 percent increase in taxes for millionaires and half-millionaires.

    Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Nicole Bowmer 2010

  • LSU finished in fifth place in the 12-team event, a one-spot improvement from the 2008 finish, but through nine holes it looked like it would be the three teams in the final wave battling for the top three spots.

    LSUsports.net 2009

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