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Spider (disambiguation)

Spider has several meanings:
  • Spiders are a type of arachnid; more generally, they are arthropods; even more so, they are animals.\n*The spider is sometimes used as symbol for scariness, for example in the Dutch movie rating system. Spider lovers are not happy with this.\n*Web crawlers, automated software agents that gather pages from the World Wide Web are also known as spiders.\n*A spider is a frothy drink made from soft drink, flavouring and ice cream. \n*Spiders can also be made by adding ice cream to beer (beer spiders).\n*A spider is also a cast-iron frying pan, so-named from the small legs with which they were originally made, on which they could be set among coals for cooking.\n*"Spider" is a track from They Might Be Giants' 1992 album Apollo 18.\n*The Spider, a radio/pulp magazine/comic book hero produced by Popular Publications from 1933 to 1943.

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