Spot

Spot or SPOT may refer to:

Places

• The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia

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
• Scott Draves (known as "Spot"), digital artist and VJ

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

Art, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• Spot (chicken), a character in 101 Dalmatians: The Series
• Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain
• Spot (Star Trek), a pet cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation
• A pet dog in the Dick and Jane textbook series
• A character in the cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey
• A deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall, who is initially assumed to be a harmless mistyping of "dog"
• A character in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants
• A pet dragon in the TV series The Munsters
• Dairine's sentient computer in the Young Wizards series

Literature

• Spot the Dog, a series of children's books adapted for animation

Music

• Spot (album), by the synthpop band And One
• Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark
• Singing Priests of Tagbilaran, a Filipino musical group
• "Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly" or SPOT, the name the Sex Pistols toured under in the United Kingdom

Biology

• Spot (fish), a fish (Leiostomus xanthurus)
• SpoT (Biology), a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp
• 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, enterprises, and marketing mascots

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

Finance

• Spot date, a financial term
• Spot market, a financial market in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery ("on the spot")
  • Spot price, a financial term for price of trade done today

Slang

• Spot, American slang for a music venue or club
• Old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars

Sports

• Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves

Technology

• SPOT (satellite), Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre, Earth-observing satellite family
• SPOT Satellite Messenger
• Single Point of Truth or SPOT, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering
• Smart Personal Objects Technology or SPOT, a Microsoft initiative
• Spotlight, called spot for short

Other meanings

• SPOT (TSA program), or "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques", an airport security technique
• Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush
• Spots (cannabis), a method of smoking cannabis, often called hotknifing in the United States
• USS Spot, an American submarine that served during World War II

See also

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