Spud (disambiguation)

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Spud is a common nickname for the potato.

Spud may also refer to:

• Idaho Spud, a candy bar made by the Idaho Candy Company
• Spud, a famous dog from Farnham, Surrey, England
• Spud bar, a hand tool designed to deliver blows to a target
• Spud (novel), a 2005 comedy novel by John Howard van de Ruit
• SPUD (game), a children's game
• Spuds, Florida, a town in the United States
• Spud the scarecrow, a character in the TV series Bob the Builder
• Spuds MacKenzie, canine mascot in an advertising campaign for Bud Light beer in the late 1980s
• "Murphy's Spuds" or "The Spuds", an early-1900s nickname of the Chicago Cubs baseball team when their owner was Charles W. Murphy.
• Drilling an oil and/or gas well; using the drill bit to start the well drilling process by removing dirt, rock and other sedimentary material
• A spud in wrestling slang is a match that involves many legitimate punches.
• Spud (plumbing) is a metal part that couples a metal pipe with a channel in a porcelain fixture, such as urinal or toilet.

In nicknames:

• Jim Bolger (born 1935), former Prime Minister of New Zealand, dubbed "Spud" by media
• Spud Chandler (1907–1990), American baseball player
• James Curtin (born 1983), British professional wrestler who uses the ring name "Spud"
• Danny Frawley (born 1963), former Australian rules footballer and coach
• Arthur "Spud" P. Spudinski, a fictional character in the animated series American Dragon: Jake Long
• Anthony "Spud" Webb (born 1963), American basketball player
• Mark Carroll (rugby league) (born 1967), Australian rugby league player

SPUD is an acronym for:

• Small potatoes urban delivery, the largest home delivery company in Canada

[edit] See also

• Spud mud, mud used to drill a well from surface to a shallow depth
• Spud gun, a child's toy or a larger pipe-based cannon