SPOT ON

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: SPOT ON

Your performance as a disgruntled minion was spot on. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

And scratch that spot on our backs we cannot reach no matter how hard we try! Don't you have anything to say? (VeggieTales: Dave and the Giant Pickle; writing credit: Frank Daniel; Alain Robbe-Grillet)

Wherever you wander, wherever glorious adventures lie ahead of you, you can rest easy knowing you've a place to come home to: the dearest spot on earth, our Avonlea. (Road to Avonlea; writing credit: Heather Conkie; Suzette Couture)

There's a little black spot on the sun today (King Of Pain; performing artist: The Police)

Spot on the Rug (1932)

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Periodicals

• Spot On (reference)

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Pictured is a screen with colored images. A hand is pointing to a spot on the screen. This is an ultrasonic device. This imaging device sends short bursts of sound into the body. Echoes are reflected from tissues and transformed on the screen into colored outlines of tissues and organs. This may also be used as a therapy method. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Fishing at a beautiful spot on the Madison River. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Pilot Rock and a bald spot on Soda Mountain. Credit: Frank Lang.

A Pretty spot on Belle Isle. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gasoline rationing. The busiest spot on the Pennsylvania turnpike. Eastbound motorists stop at this service station for a very good reason: it's the last chance to fill up before entering a gas-rationed area. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The midday sun burned through the hole and threw a glaring spot on the floor.

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Health

There is some suggestion that the incidence of babies developing a flat spot on their occiputs may have increased since the incidence of prone sleeping has decreased. (references)

Hemorrhage can occur in several ways. One common cause is a bleeding aneurysm, a weak or thin spot on an artery wall. Over time, these weak spots stretch or balloon out under high arterial pressure. (references)

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Expression using "SPOT ON": without a spot on his reputation. Additional references.

Chinese 

填寫 (fill or write in a blank spot on a form). (various references)

Pig Latin

otspay onay

Romanian

cu onoarea nepãtatã (without a spot on his reputation). (various references)

Welsh

bal (having a white spot on the forehead, stupid). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: poons, snoop, snoot, spoon, stoop, toons, topos.

-2 letters: onto, oops, oots, opts, pons, poon, post, pots, snot, soon, soot, spot, stop, tons, toon, tops.

-3 letters: noo, nos, not, ons, oot, ops, opt, pot, son, sop, sot, ton, too, top.

-4 letters: no, on, op, os, so, to.

+1 letter: nonstop, options, photons, pontons, potions, protons.

+2 letters: metopons, patroons, platoons, pontoons, portions, position, positron, postpone, potstone, sorption, spittoon, spontoon, stooping, teaspoon, tompions, topknots, toponyms, topstone, typhoons.

+3 letters: adoptions, cooptions, copatrons, copestone, corposant, downspout, hornpouts, monotypes, moonports, opponents, optionals, optionees, outpoints, outspoken, photonics, pinkroots, pliotrons, poltroons, positions, positrons, postilion, postponed, postponer, postpones, potations, potstones, pronators, snoopiest, soapstone, sorptions, spittoons, spontoons, spooniest, stonecrop, teaspoons, tonoplast, topstones, troponins.