two-spot
Americannoun
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a playing card or the upward face of a die that bears two pips, or a domino one half of which bears two pips.
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Informal. a two-dollar bill.
noun
Etymology
Origin of two-spot
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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"The once-common small tortoiseshell butterfly is now rarely seen for example, and there are far fewer records of the two-spot ladybird," Winnall explained.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Those individuals, the researchers found, exhibited the same temperature-tracking RNA-related changes as the California two-spot octopuses they had tested in the lab.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2023
But a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology uses the California two-spot octopus as a model to help explain the physiology of this strange behavior.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2022
Back came the Braves, who put up another two-spot in their half.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
‘Yep. Where Miss goes these days, that child goes too. Izzy’— no one had ever before called the little girl this—‘goes dressed as a two-spot, holding up Miss Lavinia’s train.’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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