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five-spot

[fahyv-spot]

five-spot

[fahyv-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:
1900–05, Americanism
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five-spot
 
n
(in the US) a five-dollar bill

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