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:

    “My God, they’ve shot him!”
    —Ring Lardner, Jr. (1885–1933)

    “O Jesse had a wife, a mourner all her life
    And the children they were brave,
    But the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
    He laid Jesse James in his grave.”
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I’m not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.”
    —Venus Williams (b. 1980)