two-spot

[ too-spot ]

noun

1. a playing card or the upward face of a die that bears two pips, or a domino one half of which bears two pips.
2. Informal. a two-dollar bill.

two-spot

noun

1. a card with two pips; two; deuce

Word History and Origins

Origin of two-spot¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

The child’s father, 36-year-old dentist Cameron Clifford, researched the possibility with a local aquarium store and before long Terrance the California two-spot octopus, also known as a bimac, was living in a watery enclosure at the family home southwest of Oklahoma City.

From Seattle Times

He ordered his son a California two-spot octopus to keep as a pet in a tank in his bedroom.

From New York Times

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

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

Octopus bimaculoides, or the California two-spot octopus, is a common lab cephalopod that scientists can get from the wild.

From New York Times