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A pistol is a small handheld firearm. It may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Ancient Pistol, a character in several of Shakespeare's plays
• Pistol (film), a 1973 Swedish film
• Pistol (miniseries), a miniseries about the band Sex Pistols
• The Pistol (EP)
• "Pistol", a song by Cigarettes After Sex
• A bid in some variants of the dominoes game 42

People

• Ion Pistol, Romanian executed for murder
• "Pistol" Pez Whatley (1951–2005), American professional wrestler

Other uses

• Pistol River, Oregon, United States
• Pistol Bay, Nunavut, Canada
• Pistol offense, an offensive strategy in American football
• Pistol squat, variant of lower body exercise used in strength training
• Magnetic pistol, on a naval mine or torpedo, fuze for detonation by a nearby magnetic mass
• Aerial bomb fuze

See also

• Pistol Star, a blue hypergiant star in the Milky Way galaxy
• Pistil, part of a flower
• Pistole, a type of coin
• Pistol Pete (disambiguation), nickname and fictional character name
• Gun (disambiguation)