Pool Shark

Pool shark or pool sharks (also Pool Shark, Pool Sharks, poolshark, Poolshark, PoolShark, etc.) may refer to:

  • A pool (pocket billiards) player who engages in hustling and/or sharking; often incorrectly used to simply mean "good pool player"; originally pool sharp
  • Pool Sharks a.k.a. The Pool Shark (1915), the first film featuring W. C. Fields
  • The Pool Shark (album), a 1970 honky-tonk country album by Dave Dudley
    • "The Pool Shark" (song), a 1970 single from the Dudley album
  • Pool Shark (arcade game), a 1977 coin-operated video game by Atari
  • "Pool Shark", a 1987 song by third-wave ska band The Toasters from their album Skaboom
  • Pool Sharks (pinball), a 1990 Bally Midway machine
  • PoolShark (input device), a 1990s computer input device for using a cue stick with computer games, especially cue sports (pool, snooker, billiards) simulations, via a PC's serial port
  • "Pool Shark", a 1994 short track by ska-punk and reggae-rock band Sublime, from their album Robbin' the Hood
  • Pool Shark (EP), a 1995 six-track CD by the band V.Card on Allied/Caroline Rec.
  • Pool Shark, a 1999 pool (pocket billiards) simulator video game, originally released as Actua Pool, developed by Gremlin Interactive and Mirage Ltd. for PlayStation and Windows; re-released in 2007 as Underground Pool for Nintendo DS
    • Pool Shark 2, the above game's 2004 sequel, developed by Blade Interactive for PlayStation 2, Windows and Xbox
  • "Pool Shark" (Drake & Josh episode), 2004
  • "Pool Shark", a 2009 song by rockabilly and ska-punk band The Cherry Poppin' Daddies, from their album Skaboy JFK
  • Pool shark or sand shark, nickname for automated cleaning devices for swimming pools, which often have shark-themed names such as Great White, Tiger Shark, Li'l Shark, etc.

Famous quotes containing the words pool and/or shark:

    A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
    Joan Didion (b. 1934)

    Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear—
    And he shows them pearly white—
    Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear—
    And he keeps it out of sight.
    Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)