Shot

Shot may refer to:

  • Shot glass, a small glass used for serving or measuring liquor, hence:
    • Shooter (mixed drink), a mixed alcoholic drink served in a shot glass
  • Shot (filmmaking), a part of a film between two cuts
  • Shot (ice hockey), an attempt to score a goal or points
  • Shot put, an event in track and field athletics
  • Shot silk, a type of silk
  • Showt or ShoĊ£, the city in Iran
  • Shooting (association football), a kicking technique in association football
  • Injection (medicine), an injected dose
  • Home run, in baseball slang

SHOT may stand for:

  • Society for the History of Technology, a professional organization for historians of technology
  • Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show, an annual trade show for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry
  • Serious Hazards of Transfusion, a "haemovigilance" organization for monitoring blood transfusion errors in the United Kingdom

Shot, in relation to weaponry, may refer to:

  • Shooting, the act of firing a gun
  • Gunshot, discharge of a firearm
  • Ballistic trauma, gunshot injury
  • Lead shot, small balls of metal generally used as weights or as firearm projectiles
  • Round shot, a solid projectile used in muzzle-loading cannon
  • A nuclear weapon test

In music:

  • Shot, an album by The Jesus Lizard
  • "Shot," a song by The Rasmus
  • Shot, Illusion, New God, an EP by Gruntruck
  • Shot Rev. 2.0, a video album by The Sisters of Mercy

Famous quotes containing the word shot:

    “All I’m telling you is that that little creature in there has as much right to live as you do. Don’t forget, you invaded his world. You sank a pipe six miles into the ground and when he climbed up you set dogs on him, shot him.”
    —Richard Fielding, and Lee Sholem. Superman (George Reeves)

    “You know I’d a shot her when she come runnin’ up here, but she’s got the blame best lookin’ legs I ever seen.... Well, I’ll be a suck egg mule—legs like that and can shoot too.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)

    “Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)