Spot
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Spot can refer to:
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- 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)
- a pimple, usually one caused by the skin condition Acne vulgaris
- 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
- 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
- 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 (Hong Kong Fooey), sidekick and usually saviour of the day in the Hong Kong Fooey cartoon series.
- 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
- Spot the dog, an animated series of children's books
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 music festival for contemporary Scandinavian music in Århus, Denmark
- 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
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