Eight ball

Eight ball (among other spellings) may refer to:

Sports, games and toys

• Eight-ball, a pocket billiards (pool) game; US-originating it is now an internationally standardized professional tournament game
• 8-ball pool and its variant blackball, a game closely related to eight-ball (above), commonly played at the amateur level in the British Commonwealth and its former members
• The number-8 billiard ball as used in pool
• "Behind the eight ball" refers to someone in a highly disadvantageous position or baffling situation. The idiom derives from the game kelly pool.
• 8-Ball, a character in the video game Grand Theft Auto III
• 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.

Intoxicants

• Slang for one-eighth ounce (3.54 g) of a powdered psychoactive drug (especially cocaine, but sometimes heroin, ketamine, or methamphetamine)
• A nickname for the Olde English 800 brand of malt liquor

Comics

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

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 the album You'll Rebel To Anything
• "8 Ball", a song by Underworld on the album 1992-2002 (also on the soundtrack to The Beach)
• Eight ball, a round black nondirectional microphone

Military

• Eight ball, slang for a soldier often in trouble; misfit, sad sack
• 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

Companies

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

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