Pistol (disambiguation)
A pistol is a small handheld firearm but may also refer to:
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Arms
- Magnetic pistol, on a naval mine or torpedo, fuze for detonation by a nearby magnetic mass
- Aerial bomb fuze
- Pistol squat, variant of lower body exercise used in strength training
- The Pistol Star, an extremely luminous star in the Milky Way galaxy
- Pistol offense, an offensive strategy in American football
- A bid in some variants of the dominoes game 42
People
- Ancient Pistol, a character in several Shakespeare plays
- Ion Pistol, a Romanian man executed for murder
- Pete Maravich pro basketball player
- "Pistol" Pez Whatley (1951–2005), former American professional wrestler
- The Young Pistols, former American professional wrestling tag-team
Film
- Pistol (film), a 1973 Swedish film
Music
gollark: I would probably just limit it to sending people through cheap metal detectors before they board, or something.
gollark: It does not. But there are other defenses against that which have been implemented.
gollark: It's actually just a jobs program for vaguely sociopathic idiots.
gollark: Any good terrorist could surely just bomb the large amount of people in the "security" queues.
gollark: They run you through a bunch of scanning and disallow any "dangerous" thing for no specified reason. It's like someone thought "hmm, how can we make people not want to do air travel?".
See also
- Pistil, part of a flower
- Pistole, a type of coin
- Pistol Pete (disambiguation), nickname and fictional character name
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