Definitions for five-spot

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Spelling: [fahyv-spot]

IPA: /ˈfaɪvˌspɒt/

Five-Spot is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 235 anagrams from letters in five-spot (-efiopstv).

Definitions for five-spot

noun

1. a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing five pips; a domino one half of which bears five pips.
2. Slang. a five-dollar bill.
3. a low plant, Nemophila maculata, of the waterleaf family, native to western and central California, having white flowers with a purple spot at the tip of each of its five petals.

Origin of five-spot

An Americanism dating back to 1900-05

Examples for five-spot

A lightning change can be made from a five-spot to a four-spot while swinging the card.

Cut out the center pip on the five-spot of spades with a sharp knife.

It was open, and on the marble slab lay a customer's five-spot.

My friends went back on me—that five-spot was all I had in the world, and it didn't go a long way.

Now take back the five-spot card and place it on the back of the pack, with its face side toward audience.

And also: "The five-spot of diamonds, the scaffold, the Place de Roquette."