Shotgun (disambiguation)

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
• Shotgunning or Shotgun debugging, a technique in system troubleshooting, debugging, or repair.

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) is 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), 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

Literature

• "Shotgun" (comics), a fictional villain in Marvel Comics works
• Shotgun (novel), a novel by Ed McBain

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
• Shotgun (Jamie J. Morgan album), 1990
• Shotgun (Tony Lucca album), 2004

Songs

• "Shotgun" (Junior Walker & the All Stars song), 1965
• "Shotgun" (Limp Bizkit song), 2011
• "Shotgun" (Sheryl Crow song), 2014
• "Shotgun" (Yellow Claw song), 2013
• "Shotgun" (Christina Aguilera song), 2015
• ""Shotgun" (George Ezra song), 2018
• "Shotgun", a song by the Dave Matthews Band

See also

• Shogun, a Japanese title