Usually means: Immediate, without any prior preparation.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word on the spot:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. on the spot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. on the spot: Merriam-Webster
  3. on the spot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. on the spot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. on-the-spot, on the spot: Vocabulary.com
  6. on the spot: Wordnik
  7. on the spot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. on-the-spot, on the spot: Wiktionary
  9. on-the-spot: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. on-the-spot, on the spot: Dictionary.com
  11. On the Spot (American game show), On the Spot (Canadian TV series), On the Spot (Hungarian TV series), On the Spot (UK game show), On the Spot (film), On the Spot (play), On the Spot, On the Spot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. on the spot: Rhymezone
  13. on-the-spot, on the spot: FreeDictionary.org
  14. on-the-spot, on the spot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. on-the-spot, on the spot: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. On the Spot (disambiguation), On-the-spot (disambiguation), on-the-spot, on the spot: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. on the spot: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. on the spot: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. on the spot: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (On the Spot)

noun:  an American television sketch comedy series which aired from March 20 to April 17, 2003 on The WB.
noun:  an American game show produced by and broadcast on KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon as a daily series from September 1984 to October 1988.
noun:  a BBC National Lottery game show broadcast on BBC One from 29 July to 2 September 2000.
noun:  the first television series made specifically for TV by the National Film Board of Canada, and aired on CBC Television from 1953 to 1955.
noun:  an American weekly syndicated television series that debuted in September 2011.
noun:  an Australian television program which aired from 1959 to 1960 on Melbourne station GTV-9.
noun:  On The Spot is a documentary TV series created by directors Eszter Cseke and Andras S. Takacs in their native Hungary.
noun:  a 1940 American comedy film directed by Howard Bretherton and written by George Waggner and Dorothy Davenport.
noun:  a 1930 Chicago-set play by the British writer Edgar Wallace.

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