Eight-ball (disambiguation)

Eight-ball (or 8-ball, Eightball, 8 Ball, eight ball, 8ball, etc.) may refer to:

Cue sports

• Eight-ball, a pool (pocket billiards) game, played with a solids-and-stripes ball set, originating in the United States and now world-standardized as a professional and amateur cue sport
• 8-ball pool or blackball, a related British game, using a yellows-and-reds ball set, subject to amateur and limited professional competition in Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations
• 8 ball, the black ball in pool, numbered "8", and for which the above games are named

Fiction

• Eightball (comics), a Daniel Clowes comic book
• 8-Ball (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain and his successors
• 8-Ball, a character in Grand Theft Auto III
• Eightball, an explosive round in Unreal

Military and aerospace

• 8-Ball (aircraft), a World War II-era Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber
• "Eight ball" or "sad sack", U.S. military jargon for a soldier often in trouble
• "Eight Ball", nickname for the One-Million-Liter Test Sphere, a biological warfare test chamber facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States
• "Eight-ball", nickname for the FDAI (Flight Director/Attitude Indicator), an advanced form of attitude indicator, displaying pitch, yaw, and roll of a spacecraft, whereas a standard aircraft attitude indicator ("artificial horizon") only displays pitch and roll

Toys

• Magic 8-Ball, a toy that resembles the pool ball and purports to predict the future

Music & recording

• 8-Ball (band), a rock band from Okinawa
• 8 Ball (album), an E.P. by the Burden Brothers
• "Eight Ball", a song by N.W.A. from N.W.A. and the Posse
• "8 Ball", a song by Underworld from 1992-2002
• Eight ball, jargon for a round black omnidirectional microphone
• "8 Ball", a song by DJ Quik (1991)

Slang

• Eight-ball or 8-ball, nickname for a 40-ounce bottle of Olde English 800, a brand of malt liquor
• Eight-ball or 8-ball, drug slang for one-eighth ounce of powdered cocaine, amphetamine, or other illegal drug
• Eight-ball or 8-ball, a pejorative nickname for a black person who is completely bald
• Eight-ball or 8-ball, a name for a Bloody Mary cocktail made with V8 (beverage) instead of just tomato juice

Other

• 8-ball, an eight-dimensional n-ball in mathematics
• 8-ball (zucchini), a variety of summer squash

See also

Look up eight-ball or 8 ball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Balls 8, a NASA mothership
• Behind the eight ball (disambiguation), a phrase in English meaning "in a difficult situation", and the title of several films and songs
• 8 Ball Aitken, an Australian musician
• 8Ball & MJG, a hip hop duo
• 8-Ball and Skull, ring names of professional wrestlers the Harris Brothers during their stint as members of the Disciples of Apocalypse
• Eight Ball Deluxe, a Bally pinball machine, also available as a simulation video game on various operating systems
• 8 Ball Pool (game), a Web-based and mobile-device, massively multiplayer online game produced by Miniclip
• "2 Hookers and an 8-Ball", a song by Mindless Self Indulgence from You'll Rebel to Anything