Spot Explained

Spot or SPOT may refer to:

Places

• Spot, North Carolina, a community in the United States
• The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia
• South Pole Traverse, sometimes called the South Pole Overland Traverse

People

• Spot Collins (1922-1996), American football player and coach
• Jack Comer (1912–1996), Polish-born English gangster nicknamed "Spot"
• Jerry Chamberlain (known as "Spot"), the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
• Scott Draves (known as "Spot"), digital artist and VJ
• Spot (producer), Glenn Michael Lockett (1951–2023), house producer and engineer for the label SST Records
• Spot (rapper) (born 1987), American rapper
• 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 and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Spot, a character in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated film The Good Dinosaur
• 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
• Spot Helperman, the main protagonist in Disney animated series Teacher's Pet (TV series)
• Spot Splatter Splash, a Lalaloopsy doll and character in the TV series

Music

• Spot (album), by the synth-pop band And One
• "Spot!", a song by Zico featuring Jennie
• 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
• Another term for a pimple

Brands and enterprises

• SPoT Coffee, a coffee chain
• Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), Swedish media company
• Spot, a mascot for 7 Up soft drinks

Technology

• SPOT (satellite) (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre), an 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, a GPS tracking device
• Spot, a four-legged canine-inspired robot made by Boston Dynamics
• Spot, a 3D test model of a cow

Other meanings

• USS Spot, an American World War II submarine later sold to Chile and renamed
• 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
• Spotlight, called spot for short
• Spot, American slang for a music venue or club
• Spot, old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars
• Spots (cannabis), a method of smoking cannabis, often called hotknifing in the United States

See also

• • Spotz (disambiguation)