Shot Explained

Shot may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Shot (album), by The Jesus Lizard
• Shot, Illusion, New God, an EP by Gruntruck
• Shot Rev 2.0, a video album by The Sisters of Mercy
• "Shot" (song), by The Rasmus
• Shot (2017 film), an American film starring Noah Wyle
• Shot (filmmaking), a part of a film between two cuts

Organizations

• Serious Hazards of Transfusion, or SHOT, an organisation monitoring blood transfusion errors in the UK
• Society for the History of Technology, or SHOT, a professional organization for historians of technology

Sports

• Shot (ice hockey), an attempt to score a goal or points
• Home run, or shot in baseball slang
• Shot put, an event in track and field athletics
• SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show), an annual trade show for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry
• Cricket shots, ways of hitting the ball to score in cricket

Weaponry and ballistics

• Shot (pellet), small balls of metal generally used as shotgun projectiles, or as weights
• Armor-piercing shot and shell, an artillery shell
• Buckshot, a type of shotgun projectiles
• Gunshot, discharge of a firearm
• Round shot, a spherical solid metal projectile
• Sho't, main battle tank

Other uses

• Shot, a slang term for an injection (medicine).
• Shot, a fifteen fathom line length of anchor chain
• Shot, or shott, a group of adjacent strips or furlongs in the medieval open field system
• Shot, or shooter (drink), a mixed alcoholic drink served in a shot glass
• Shot glass, a small glass used for serving or measuring liquor
• Shot silk, a type of silk
• Showt or Shoţ, a city in Iran

See also

• The Shot (disambiguation)
• Moonshot (disambiguation), a rocket launch to the moon
• Shots (disambiguation)
• Shoot (disambiguation)
• Shooter (disambiguation)
• Shooting (association football), a kicking technique in association football
• Shooting, the act of firing a projectile weapon or device