Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having six spots, as an insect or a playing-card: as, the six-spot burnet-moth.
- noun A playing-card with six pips.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips
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Examples
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Suddenly, there in the viewfinder, was a six-spot burnet moth on the orchid blossoms.
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In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers.
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The commercials, from ad agency Wieden + Kennedy, broke in early February as part of a six-spot "Smell Like a Man, Man" ad campaign for Old Spice.
The Battle of the Men's Body Washes Melanie Wells 2010
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The "hole" card was not promising -- it was only a six-spot; but, backing his luck, Smith bet high on it.
'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916
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A king of diamonds showed first, then a ten-spot and a six-spot of the same suit.
Crooked Trails and Straight William MacLeod Raine 1912
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After Hercik had a three-pitch inning in the top half, his mates put up a six-spot.
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After Hercik had a three-pitch inning in the top half, his mates put up a six-spot.
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After Hercik had a three-pitch inning in the top half, his mates put up a six-spot.
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In the tournament opener Friday afternoon, the Sooners hung a six-spot in the home first on the way to a 16-5 rout of Mississippi State.
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The Indians put up a six-spot in the fourth inning, half those runs coming on a bases-clearing triple over the right fielder's head by Staub, extending their margin to 11-4.
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