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A shotgun is a type of firearm.

Contents

• Science and technology
• Slang
• Sport
• Film and television
• Literature
• Music
• Songs
• See also

• Sawed-off shotgun/ Boomstick

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
• Shotgun debugging or shotgunning, a technique in system troubleshooting, debugging, or repair
• Shotgun Software, a project management software for creative studios owned by Autodesk

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
• to shotgun weed or a joint, when one person forces marijuana smoke into the mouth of another person

Sport

• Shotgun (shooting sports), a shooting sports discipline
• 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 2011 television episode
• "Shotgun" (Juliet Bravo), a 1980 television episode

Literature

• "Shotgun" (comics), a fictional villain in Marvel Comics works
• Shotgun (novel), a novel by Ed McBain
• Shotgun News (Firearms News since 2016), an American shooting and firearms interest publication

Music

• Shotgun (funk band), American funk band from Detroit, Michigan
• Shotgun (rock band), 1970s American rock band from Dallas, Texas
• Shotgun (Jamie J. Morgan album), 1990
• Shotgun, a 2004 album by Tony Lucca

See also

• Shogun , a Japanese title
• Shotgun wedding (disambiguation)

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