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Spot or SPOT may refer to:

Places

People

  • SPOT (producer), the house producer and engineer for the label SST Records
  • Spot (rapper/producer)
  • Jerry Chamberlain (known as "Spot"), the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
  • William Spot Collins (1922-1996), American football player and coach, nicknamed "Spot"
  • Scott Draves (known as "Spot"), digital artist and VJ
  • Moondog Spot, a ring name for professional wrestler Larry Booker

Advertising

  • Radio spot, an over-the-air advertisement
  • TV spot, a televised advertisement
  • Underwriting spot, an announcement made on public broadcasting outlets, especially in the United States, in exchange for funding

Animals

  • Spot, a dog that remained faithful after his master's death, described in the List of individual dogs
  • Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Spot (chicken), in 101 Dalmatians: The Series
  • Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain
  • Spot (franchise), the titular puppy in a series of children's books and animated television shows created by Eric Hill
  • Spot (Star Trek), a pet cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Spot, a pet dog in the Dick and Jane textbook series
  • Spot, a cat in the cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey
  • Spot, a pet dog from the William Joyce series Rolie Polie Olie
  • Spot, a pet amoeba in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants season 11
  • Spot, a deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall
  • Spot, a pet dragon in the TV series The Munsters
  • Spot, Dairine's sentient computer in the Young Wizards series
  • Spot, a dog in the Isle of Dogs movie

Music

  • Spot (album), by the synthpop band And One
  • Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark
  • "Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly" or SPOTS, a name the Sex Pistols toured under in the United Kingdom

Biology and healthcare

  • Spot (fish), a fish (Leiostomus xanthurus)
  • SpoT, a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp
  • Spot, any of several typically spot-forming fungal or bacterial leaf diseases on plants, caused, for example, by Diplocarpon variants (black spot on roses)
  • Cherry angioma, called Campbell de Morgan spots, small red spots on the skin (usually harmless)
  • Metrorrhagia or spotting, vaginal bleeding not synchronized with a menstrual period
  • Pimple or spot, a skin blemish

Brands and enterprises

  • Cool Spot, a mascot for 7 Up soft drinks
  • Spot Bicycles, a brand made by Shinola
  • SPoT Coffee, a coffee chain

Finance

  • Spot, American slang for a bill of currency, e.g., a "Ten spot" is $10
  • Spot, old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars
  • Spot date, a financial term
  • Spot market, a financial market in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery
    • Spot price, a financial term for price of trade done today

Technology

  • SPOT (satellite), Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre, Earth-observing satellite family
  • Single Point of Truth or SPOT, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering
  • Smart Personal Objects Technology or SPOT, a Microsoft initiative
  • SPOT Satellite Messenger
  • Spotlight, called spot for short
  • Spot, a four-legged canine-inspired robot made by Boston Dynamics
  • Spot, a 3D test model of a cow

Other meanings

  • Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves
  • SPOT (TSA program), or "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques", an airport security technique
  • Spot, American slang for a music venue or club
  • Spots (cannabis), a method of smoking cannabis, often called hotknifing in the United States
  • USS Spot, an American submarine launched in 1944 and sold to Chile and renamed in 1962

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Spot
  • Spotz (disambiguation)
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