Eight ball (disambiguation)

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Eight ball (among other spellings) may refer to:

Contents 1 Games, sports and toys 2 Intoxicants 3 Comics 4 Music 5 Military 6 Companies

[edit] Games, sports and toys

• Eight-ball, a pocket billiards (pool) game
• The number-8 billiard ball as used in pool
• 8-Ball, a character in the Grand Theft Auto III video game
• Don "8-Ball" Harris, a professional wrestler
• Magic 8-Ball, a toy that resembles the pool ball and purports to tell fortunes
• Eightball gun, a fictional grenade launcher featured in the Unreal computer game series
• Eight Ball Deluxe and Eight Ball Deluxe Limited Edition, popular 1982 pinball machines with a billiards theme, manufactured by Bally Midway.

[edit] Intoxicants

• Slang for one-eighth ounce (3.5 g) of a powdered psychoactive drug (especially cocaine, but sometimes heroin or crystal methamphetamine) or a ball of crack cocaine
• A nickname for the Olde English 800 brand of malt liquor

[edit] Comics

• Eightball (comic book), a Daniel Clowes comic
• 8-Ball (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain

[edit] Music

• 8 Ball & MJG, a rap duo
• 8-Ball (band), a rock band from Okinawa
• 8 Ball (album), the first E.P. by the Burden Brothers
• "Eight Ball", an early N.W.A. song released on the multi-artist compilation N.W.A. and the Posse
• "2 Hookers and an 8-Ball", a song by Mindless Self Indulgence on their album You'll Rebel To Anything
• 8 Ball (song) is a song by U.K. electronic music band Underworld from the hits and B Sides album '1992-2002'. It was featured on the soundtrack to the film The Beach.

[edit] Military

• 8-Ball (aircraft), a World War II-era B-24 Liberator aircraft
• "Eight Ball", a nickname for the One-Million-Liter Test Sphere, a biological warfare test chamber facility located on Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA

[edit] Companies

• Eight Ball Nutrition (a.k.a. 8-BallNutrition.com), a major manufacturer of energy drinks and nutritional supplements.
• 8BallSearch.com, an Web search engine.