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three-spot

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[three-spot] / ˈθriˌspɒt /

noun

  1. a playing card, an upward face of a die, or a domino half bearing three pips.


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Unfazed, King said Roberts told her she’d be playing at the three-spot in place of Jackson and Burrell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

These connections to higher-order control regions planted the idea that the three-spot network might be important for merging motor command signals from the homunculus with neural activity for more abstract planning.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 21, 2023

"To put up a three-spot in the second inning, no less against one of the better pitchers in baseball, if not at the top, that’s really big," Lyles said.

From Fox News ● May 18, 2021

The Miami Heat are part of a six-team, three-spot race in the East, and Wade is hoping for one last postseason trip out of his 16th and final season.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2019

We’d whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about, So we humped our blues serenely and made for Sydney town, With a three-spot cheque between us, as wanted knocking down.

From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

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