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Definition of Five-spot

1. Noun. A United States bill worth 5 dollars.

2. Noun. California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal.

3. Noun. A playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Five-spot

five-fors five-hitter five-hundredth five-hundredths five-leaf five-leafed five-leaved five-membered five-nine five-past

five-point Calvinist five-point bishop's cap five-second delay five-second rule five-spice powder five-spot (current term) five-star five-to five-tool player five-tool players

five-twenties five Ks five and dime five card stud five dollar bill five finger discount five finger exercise five hundred five iron five lemma

Literary usage of Five-spot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"... as they increased in numbers and age they wandered further afield, but I did not see one " five-spot " actually down in the meadow already referred to. ..."

2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"With the easy good-humor characteristic of his class, he insisted upon exchanging his own riding-horse, "Five Spot," for the sorry mule which the Duchess ..."

3. The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology by William Dean Howells, Boni & Liveright (1920)
"The young woman readjusted her somewhat draggled plumes with a feeble, faded coquetry; Mother Shipton eyed the possessor of Five Spot with malevolence, ..."

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