Spot

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Spot can refer to:

• any small area, like the spots on a deer, the famous spots praised by the surfers, or the area illuminated by a spotlight
• an advertisement (i.e. a "radio spot" or "TV spot" )
• an announcement on a public broadcasting station made in exchange for funding (i.e., and underwriting spot)
• another word for a pimple
• a common name for pets, most typically dogs:
  • Spot Fetcher, George W. Bush's dog
  • Spot the dog, an animated series of children's books
  • Spot, Data's pet cat in Star Trek.
• a small game fish common in US Atlantic coastal waters, Leiostomus xanthurus
• short for spot price of commodities
• In the financial markets, if you are spot trading or trading spot you are buying/selling for immediate delivery rather than for future delivery; for example, see foreign exchange spot trading
• the Great red spot on Jupiter, a very large and persistent storm
• Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned set of moves in a professional wrestling match
• The Blackspot Anticorporation, a project of AdBusters magazine that manufactures sneakers
• Cool Spot, the mascot for 7 Up in the 1990s
• A pimple, usually one caused by the skin condition Acne vulgaris
• Spotlight

In fiction:

• Spot (chicken), a character in "101 Dalmatians: The Series".
• Spot (Star Trek), the pet cat of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Spot, the pet dragon of The Munsters TV Sitcom
• The name of the dog of the 'Dick and Jane' readers, popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's
• Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain
• A loveable children's television character. Please post the lyrics of the theme song if you know them.

In music:

• Spot (producer), a guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/composer and influential punk music producer for SST Records
• Jerry Chamberlain, the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
• Spot (music festival), a Danish music festival in Århus
• Spot (album), an album by the synthpop band And One

SPOT is an acronym for:

• Skatepark of Tampa, a world-famous Tampa, Florida skatepark
• Smart Personal Objects Technology, a Microsoft initiative started in 2002, aimed at improving the function of everyday objects via software
• SPOT (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre), a series of French, commercial earth observation satellites
• Tourist spots