Shotgun (disambiguation)

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A shotgun is a type of firearm.

Shotgun may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Shotgun hill climbing, a type of mathematical optimization algorithm in computer science
• Shotgun house, a type of narrow, rectangular house
• Shotgun sequencing, a method of sequencing DNA
• Shotgunning (cold reading), a "mind-reading" technique
• Shotgun mic, a type of microphone with a long barrel

Slang

• Riding shotgun, a passenger sitting beside the driver in a car or other vehicle
• Shotgun wedding, a hasty wedding due to unplanned pregnancy
• Shotgunning, a method for rapidly drinking beer out of a can by punching a hole in it

Sport

• Shotgun, nickname ("Escopeta" in Spanish) of Sergio Roitman (born 1979), professional tennis player from Argentina
• Shotgun formation, an offensive formation in American football
• "The Shotgun", a nickname for snooker player Jamie Cope
• WWF Shotgun Saturday Night, a television series

Film and television

• Shotgun (1955 film), an American Western film
• Shotgun, 1989 film with Rif Hutton
• Shotgun, retitled After Everything, a 2018 American comedy-drama film
• "Shotgun" (Breaking Bad), a season four episode of Breaking Bad

Comics

• "Shotgun" (comics), a fictional villain in Marvel Comics works

Music

• Shotgun (funk band), a funk group debuting in 1977
• Shotgun (rock band), a rock group active in the Dallas, Texas area between 1974 and 1976

See also

• Shotgun (game), a hand game also known as 007.
• Shōgun, the correct spelling for the Japanese title