Rifle (disambiguation)
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A rifle is a firearm with a stock and a barrel that has a spiral groove or grooves ("rifling") cut into its interior.
Rifle may also refer to:
In arts and entertainment:
- The Rifle, a 1995 novel by American writer Gary Paulsen
- The Rifles (band), an English rock band
- "Rifles", a song by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on the album B.R.M.C.
- “Rifle“, a contemporary welsh-german rapper.
In military use:
- The Rifles, a regiment of the British Army
- Rifle regiment, British light infantry armed with rifles
- Rifle regiment, a type of Russian and Soviet unit of the rifle troops type
Other uses:
- Rifle, Colorado, a city in Garfield County, Colorado, USA
- Rifle (fashion), an Italian clothing company
- RIFLE, a classification system for acute renal failure
- Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
See also
- Rifling, the process of grooving a gun barrel to increase a projectile's range and accuracy
- Rifleman (disambiguation) a private soldier in a rifle unit of infantry
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