Sledgehammer (disambiguation)

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A sledgehammer is a large manual impact tool which has a metal head distinguishing it from a mallet with head made of softer material.

Sledgehammer or Sledge Hammer may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

• Sledgehammer (film), a slasher film from 1983

Gaming

• Sledgehammer, video game character from Clock Tower 3
• Sledgehammer Games, a video game studio owned by Activision

Music

• "Sledgehammer" (Peter Gabriel song), 1986
• "Sledgehammer" (Fifth Harmony song), 2014
• "Sledgehammer" (Rihanna song), 2016
• "Sledgehammer", a song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive from their 1974 album Not Fragile

Television

• Sledge Hammer!, a satirical TV sitcom which ran from 1986 to 1988
• "Sledgehammer" (Grey's Anatomy), a 2015 episode of Grey's Anatomy

People

• Sledgehammer, informal nickname used by United States Marine PFC Eugene Sledge
• 911 (wrestler), also known as Sledge Hammer (born 1957), stage name of professional wrestler Al Poling

Military operations

• Operation Sledgehammer, a 1942 Allied plan in World War II for cross-Channel invasion of Europe (not executed)
• Operation Sledgehammer (2007), 2007 military search operation during the Iraq war
• Sledgehammer (coup plan), an alleged military coup plan in Turkey

Other uses

• Sledgehammer (ride), a ride at Canada's Wonderland theme park
• Sledgehammer Corvette, an 880hp Corvette modified by Callaway Cars
• Opteron, a 64-bit CPU made by AMD, codenamed Sledgehammer

See also

• Sledgehammer Blues, an independent record label