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Shooting sports
Shooting sports: competitive target shooting with rifle, pistol, and shotgun, governed internationally by the ISSF (founded 1907, Zürich). Olympic since 1896; disciplines include rifle, pistol, shotgun, running target, and Target Sprint.
Shooting Star
A shooting star is the popular name for a meteor, the streak of light produced when a meteoroid entering Earth's atmosphere at high speed burns up.
Shooting Star (band)
Shooting Star is a Kansas City hard rock band formed 1978 by Van McLain and Ron Verlin, first American act signed to Virgin (1979), five albums 1980-1985 including Hang On for Your Life, re-formed with later singers Kevin Chalfant and Ronnie Platt.
Shootout
A shootout, or gun battle, is an exchange of gunfire between two armed sides ending when one is killed, defeated, or withdraws; in sports it is a tie-breaker.
Shootout at Lokhandwala
Shootout at Lokhandwala is a 2007 Hindi crime film by Apoorva Lakhia, first of the Shootout series, dramatizing the 1991 Mumbai police encounter that killed gangster Maya Dolas in Lokhandwala Complex.
Shootout at Wadala
Shootout at Wadala (शूटआऊट ऍट वडाला) is a 2013 Sanjay Gupta Hindi crime film starring John Abraham as gangster Manya Surve, dramatizing the Mumbai police's first registered encounter, based on Dongri to Dubai.
Shop Circle
Shop Circle is a London-based e-commerce software company founded in 2021 by Luca Cartechini and Gian Maria Gramondi, which acquires and operates Shopify apps and vertical SaaS.
Shop drawing
A shop drawing is a detailed construction drawing prepared by a contractor, fabricator, or supplier, showing how a portion of the work will be fabricated and installed.
Shop floor control
Shop floor control, also called production activity control, is the manufacturing discipline of turning a planned production schedule into actual work on the factory floor.
Shop Pay
Shop Pay is an accelerated checkout and digital wallet developed by Shopify, launched in 2017 as Shopify Pay, which stores payment and shipping details for one-tap checkout.
ShopClues
ShopClues is an Indian online marketplace founded in 2011 and headquartered in Gurgaon, which pioneered the managed marketplace model connecting third-party sellers with buyers. Once valued at $1.1 billion, it was sold in 2019 to Qoo10.
Shope papilloma virus
Shope papilloma virus (SfPV, CRPV, Kappapapillomavirus 2) is a rabbit papillomavirus discovered by Richard Shope in 1933, causing horn-like head tumors in cottontails, transmissible to domestic rabbits, not to humans, and the first mammalian DNA tumor virus model for HPV cancer research.
Shopee
Shopee is the e-commerce marketplace arm of Sea Limited, launched in Singapore in 2015 and now the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, also operating in Brazil.
Shoper
Shoper was a Polish SaaS e-commerce company headquartered in Krakow, operating since 2005, providing software, payments, logistics, and advertising for online shops; it merged into cyber_Folks S.A. in 2026.
Shopify
Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company based in Ottawa that provides a cloud-hosted platform for merchants to build online stores, founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke.
Shopkins
Shopkins, a Moose Toys collectible toy line launched in 2014, features miniature grocery-themed characters with faces and names; a 12-pack was the bestselling U.S. toy of 2015.
Shoplifters (万引き家族) (film)
Shoplifters (万引き家族, Manbiki Kazoku) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 Japanese drama about a poor Tokyo household bound by shoplifting; it won the 2018 Cannes Palme d'Or and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
Shoplifting
Shoplifting is theft of merchandise from a retail store by a posing customer, also called retail customer theft. Lifetime prevalence about 10% of US adults; made a hanging offence in England by the 1699 Shoplifting Act; largely undetected, with about 2% of shoplifters arrested.
Shoppers Drug Mart
Shoppers Drug Mart, known as Pharmaprix in Quebec, is Canada's largest pharmacy chain, founded by Murray Koffler in Toronto in 1962 and owned by Loblaw since 2014.
Shopping
Shopping is the activity of browsing and buying goods through physical stores, e-commerce sites, marketplaces, and social platforms; most shoppers now research in one channel and buy in another.
Shopping cart
A shopping cart, also known as a shopping trolley, is a wheeled basket stores provide so customers can collect and transport goods, first used in Oklahoma City in 1937.
Shopping cart theory
Shopping Cart Theory: viral meme from a May 2020 4chan /pol/ post claiming returning a shopping cart tests self-governance and moral character; spread via Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube, critiqued as simplistic, studied via social-norm research.
Shopping King Louie (쇼핑왕 루이)
Shopping King Louie (쇼핑왕 루이), also Shopaholic Louis, is a 2016 MBC 16-episode romantic comedy miniseries starring Seo In-guk and Nam Ji-hyun, about an amnesiac shopping-company heir living with a country girl in Seoul; it rose from 5.6% to double-digit Nielsen ratings and won three 2016 MBC Drama Awards.
Shopping mall
A shopping mall, also called a shopping center, is a large purpose-built retail complex where multiple stores operate under unified management with shared parking and walkways.
Shopska salad (Шопска салата)
Shopska salad (Шопска салата), Bulgarian chopped salad of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and onion under grated sirene cheese; invented by Balkantourist chefs in the 1950s, cheese added in the 1970s; named for the Shopluk region, not an old folk recipe.
Shor (शोर)
Shor (शोर), 1972 Hindi drama written, produced, directed, and edited by Manoj Kumar, who stars as mill worker Shankar raising money to restore his mute son's voice; music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Filmfare Best Editing winner, remade in Tamil as Osai.
Shor in the City
Shor in the City (शोर इन द सिटी) is a 2011 Hindi crime drama directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K., starring Tusshar Kapoor, Sendhil Ramamurthy, and Nikhil Dwivedi in three interwoven Mumbai stories during Ganesh Chaturthi, released 28 April 2011 by Balaji Motion Pictures.
Shor's algorithm
Shor's algorithm, also known as the Shor factorization algorithm, is a quantum algorithm published by Peter Shor in 1994 that factors integers and computes discrete logarithms in polynomial time.
Shore
Shore: the land at the edge of a sea, lake, or other large water body, from low water mark to the highest wave reach; distinct from coast (regional scale) and beach (sandy).
Shore Capital Healthcare Advantage
Shore Capital Healthcare Advantage is a series of private equity funds managed by Shore Capital Partners in Chicago, making control investments in lower-middle-market healthcare companies since 2024.