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eight-spot

/eyt-spot/US // ˈeɪtˌspɒt //

八点,八点式,八角

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : a playing card the face of which bears eight pips.

Examples

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

  • Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.

  • The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.

  • One of the kids had a ball in his hand, and Cuomo took it and tossed it back and forth to an eight year old.

  • Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.

  • When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.

  • After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.

  • There was a lathe near the spot where David Arden stood, and shavings and splinters under his feet.

  • But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.