Mascot (disambiguation)

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Mascot is a name for something that is supposed to bring luck. The word originally denoted a magical/religious fetish-like object but is now is most commonly used to describe characters or items used to represent an event or organisation.

• Places
  • Mascot, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.
  • Mascot, Tennessee, a city in the United States.

• Other uses
  • Mascot (software) is a search engine which uses mass spectrometry data to identify proteins from sequence databases.
  • "Mascot" is the NATO reporting name for the training version of the Soviet Ilyushin Il-28 bomber.
  • MASCOT (Realtime systems) is a design method for concurrent systems.
  • Mascot (car) was a car made by AB Rååverken
  • MASCOT (project) is a research project funded by the European Commission
  • Mascot Pictures Corporation was an American film studio

• In music:
  • Dance of the Merry Mascots
  • Mascotte, a Belgian electro-rock band