spot line

American

noun

Theater.

a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.

Example Sentences

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It’s not that difficult to postpone gross-out stories, and the whole “You need to toughen up, because you never know when you’re going to run into an emergency room doctor who needs to vent about bodily fluids on the spot” line strikes me as tenuous at best.

From Slate

The key will be picking your spot/line and committing to it.

From Golf Digest

A new telephone line has been added just above the damp spot line.

From BBC

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