Spot

Spot is...

• 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.
• Guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
• in fiction:
  • 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, Jane, and Sally' readers, popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
• short for spot price of commodities
• the Great red spot on Jupiter, a very large and persistent storm.
• Abbreviation of Smart Personal Objects Technology.
• 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.