Gun (disambiguation)

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A gun is an object that propels a projectile through a hollow tube, primarily as weaponry.

Gun(s) may also refer to:

Implements

  • Cannon
  • Artillery
  • Deluge gun
  • Water gun
  • Light gun, a pistol-shaped gaming controller
  • Gun (staff), a weapon used in Chinese martial arts

Places

  • Gun, a former administrative District of Japan
  • Gun, a Korean county
  • Gunnersbury station, London, England, National Rail station code
  • Kőszeg or Güns, a town in Hungary

People

  • Gun (Korean name), a masculine given name in Korean
  • Gun (Swedish name), a feminine given name in Swedish
  • Gün, a Turkish name
  • Katharine Gun (born 1974), a former GCHQ employee and whistleblower
  • Lance Gun (1903–1958), Australian cricketer
  • Tracii Guns (born 1966), American guitarist
  • Alice Gun, English musician
  • Gun (Chinese mythology) (鯀), mythological man and appointed flood control engineer, the father of Yu the Great, or, in other accounts, a legendary giant fish
  • Gun, an alternative name in the United Kingdom for a shooter, particularly in the hunting of game birds

Groups, companies, organizations

  • Gun Media, an American video game developer based in Lexington, Kentucky
  • Gun (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Gun (2010 film), an American film
  • Gun (2011 film), an Indian film
  • Guns (film), a 1990 American film
  • The Gun (1974 film), a television film directed by John Badham

Gaming

  • Gun (cellular automaton), a pattern in Conway's Game of Life
  • Gun (video game), a video game set in the 1880s in the American West
  • Guardian Units of Nations (G.U.N), an organization in the Sonic The Hedgehog series of video games

Literature

  • "Guns" (essay), a non-fiction essay by Stephen King
  • The Gun (Chivers book), a 2010 non-fiction book by C. J. Chivers
  • The Gun (novel), a 1933 novel by C. S. Forester
  • "The Gun" (short story), a short story by Philip K. Dick

Music

Groups and labels

  • Gun (band), a Scottish hard rock band 1987–1997, 2008 onwards
  • GUN Records, a record label
  • Gun (1960s band), an English hard rock band, late 1960s
  • Gun (rapper), a South Korean rapper

Albums and EPs

  • Guns (EP), a 1992 EP by Negativland
  • Guns (Cardiacs album), 1999
  • Guns (Quelle Chris album), 2019

Songs

  • "Gun" (song), a 2013 song by Chvrches
  • "Gun", a 1993 single by Gigolo Aunts from the album Flippin' Out
  • "Gun", a 2012 single by Serebro from the album Mama Lover
  • "Gun," a song from the Soundgarden album Louder Than Love
  • "Gun," a song by Doja Cat from the album Scarlet, 2023
  • "Gun", a song by John Cale from the album Fear
  • "Gun", a song by War from the album The Black-Man's Burdon
  • "Gun.", a song by My Chemical Romance from the album Number Two, part of the compilation album Conventional Weapons
  • "Guns", a song by Quelle Chris from the eponymous album Guns
  • “Guns”, a song by Coldplay from the album Everyday Life
  • "The Gun", a song by Lou Reed from his album The Blue Mask
  • "Gun Song", by the Lumineers from the 2016 album Cleopatra

Television

  • Gun (TV series), a short-lived anthology series produced by Robert Altman
  • Guns (miniseries), a Canadian television miniseries that aired on CBC Television in 2008
  • "The Gun" (The Professionals), a 1980 episode of the British TV series
  • "The Gun", an alternate name for the unmade Seinfeld episode "The Bet"
  • "The Gun", a 1975 episode of the TV series M*A*S*H
  • "The Gun", a 1986 episode of the TV sitcom Gimme a Break!

Languages

Other uses

  • Guns, slang in sports & bodybuilding, for human biceps muscles
  • Clathrate gun hypothesis, a hypothesised geological event where rises in sea temperatures (and/or falls in sea level) can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate
  • Gunslayer Legend, a multimedia franchise including manga, a video game, and animated series

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with gun
  • Gunn (disambiguation)
  • Gunner (disambiguation)
  • Gunning (disambiguation)
  • Güns (disambiguation)
  • Gunz (disambiguation) or Günz
  • Pistol (disambiguation)
  • Kun (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Gun
  • All pages with titles containing Gun
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