Spill

A spill occurs when the contents of something, usually in liquid form, are emptied out onto a surface, person or clothes, often unintentionally.

Spill may also refer to:

• Oil spill
• Chemical spill
• Data spill
• Leadership spill
• Spill (audio), where audio from one source is picked up by a microphone intended for a different source
• Variable spilling, a side effect of register allocation
• Thin sticks of wood or tightly rolled paper tapers, used for transferring fire, and stored in a spill vase
• SPILL – an acronym for St Pancras International Low Level, the Thameslink platforms at St Pancras railway station in London

As a proper name

• Thomas Spilsbury, soccer player nicknamed Spill
• Spill (band), a British dance duo
• Spill.com, a movie review website

People with the surname

• Daniel Spill (1832–1887), English entrepreneur
• Steve Spill (born 1955), American magician

Arts

• Spill (book), a 1991 novel by Les Standiford
• Spill. En damroman, a 2010 Swedish novel by Sigrid Combüchen
• Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, a 2017 book of prose and poetry by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• "Spill" (Beavis and Butt-head), a 2011 episode
• Spilled!, a 2025 cozy game

See also

• Spillway – Structure for controlled release of flows from a dam or levee
• Spilling water for luck – Eurasiatic folk custom
• Spilling salt – Evil omen in European superstition