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Shotgun slug
A shotgun slug is a single projectile fired from a shotgun instead of shotshell pellets; most designs place the center of mass forward, flying like a shuttlecock.
Shotgun wedding
Shotgun wedding: a hurried marriage prompted by the bride's pregnancy, historically coerced by the bride's father, from the American frontier. Once the US norm until the 1970s, it declined after abortion and contraception liberalization, driving most of the rise in out-of-wedlock births.
Shotgun Wedding (2022 film)
Shotgun Wedding (2022) is an American romantic action-comedy directed by Jason Moore, starring Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel as wedding hostages, released on Prime Video January 27, 2023; also known as Bodas de Plomo.
Shotokan
Shotokan (松濤館流) is the karate style founded by Gichin Funakoshi, who renamed karate-jutsu karate-do in 1929. Known for 27 kata, semi-contact kumite, and the JKA, founded 1948, which split after Nakayama's 1987 death.
Shōtōki
Shōtōki (正統記), fully Jinnō Shōtōki, is a Japanese historical treatise by the Southern Court noble Kitabatake Chikafusa, drafted in 1339 and revised in 1343, defending the Southern Court's legitimacy.
Shottas
Shottas is a 2002 Jamaican crime film written and directed by Cess Silvera, starring Ky-Mani Marley and Spragga Benz as gangsters in Kingston and Miami; a bootleg-fueled cult classic released officially in 2006.
Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei (সত্যি বলে সত্যি কিছু নেই)
Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei (সত্যি বলে সত্যি কিছু নেই), also known as If Truth Be Told, is a 2025 Bengali legal thriller by Srijit Mukherji, produced by SVF, adapting Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (itself from 12 Angry Men); released 23 January 2025, on Hoichoi 18 April 2025.
Shotzi Blackheart
Shotzi Blackheart (Ashley Louise Urbanski, b. 1993), American pro wrestler, ex-WWE/NXT Women's Tag Team Champion, now in TNA and on the indies, reigning MLW World Women's Champion.
Shou Zi Chew (周受资)
Shou Zi Chew (周受资) is a Singaporean businessman who has led TikTok as chief executive officer since 2021 and became the public face of its US political battles.
Shou-Cheng Zhang
Shou-Cheng Zhang (张首晟, 1963–2018) was a Stanford condensed matter physicist, born in Shanghai, who predicted the quantum spin Hall effect and the first topological insulator, confirmed by experiment in 2007.
Shou‐Wei Ding
Shou-Wei Ding is a distinguished professor of microbiology and plant pathology at UC Riverside who established RNA interference as a common antiviral defense across plants, insects, and mammals, receiving the 2020 Noel T. Keen Award.
Shoubhik Das
Shoubhik Das is a German-based chemist who has headed Organic Chemistry I at the University of Bayreuth since August 2023, known for photocatalytic CO2 activation research.
Shoubra El-Kheima power plant
Shoubra El-Kheima power plant is a steam thermal power station in Shoubra El-Kheima, Qalyubia, Egypt, built between 1984 and 1988 with four 315 MW steam units.
Shouchan biao stele (Inscription on Accepting the Abdication)
The Shouchan biao stele (受禅表碑) is a stone inscription erected in 220 CE at Fancheng, Linying County, Henan, commemorating Cao Pi's acceptance of Emperor Xian of Han's abdication and the founding of the Wei dynasty.
Shoucheng Zhang
Shoucheng Zhang (张首晟, 1963–2018) was a Stanford condensed matter physicist who predicted the quantum spin Hall effect in 2006 and the topological insulators confirmed experimentally in 2007.
Shouchun City Site
寿春城遗址 (Shouchun City site): remains of the last capital of the Chu state, 241–223 BC, at Shou County, Anhui. Key facts: 14.6 km² outer city, Shoubin wall, E Jun Qi Jie, Ying Yuan gold, Wuwangdun tomb.
Shouduan
Shouduan (守端), also known as Baiyun Shouduan, was a Chan Buddhist monk of Song dynasty China, a master of the Yangqi lineage of the Linji school and teacher of Wuzu Fayan.
Shouf Biosphere Reserve
Shouf Biosphere Reserve (Al-Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve), Lebanon's first UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve (2005), a ~50,000 ha protected area with 620 ha of cedar forest, 520 plant species, and 24 municipalities practicing community ecotourism.
Shougang
Shougang (首钢) is a Chinese state-owned iron and steel group headquartered in Beijing, founded in 1919, which moved its steelmaking to Caofeidian by 2010; its former Beijing plant hosted Big Air at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Shouguang
Shouguang (寿光市) is a county-level city of Weifang, Shandong, on Laizhou Bay. Known as China's 'home of vegetables' with 157,000 greenhouses and 4.5 million tonnes annual output, and 'sea salt capital' with 4.2 million tonnes salt capacity.
Shouheng Sun
Shouheng Sun is a chemist and materials scientist, the Vernon K. Krieble Professor at Brown University, known for FePt nanoparticles used in magnets and fuel-cell catalysis.
Shoukat Dedhar
Shoukat Dedhar is a Canadian cancer biologist, Distinguished Scientist at BC Cancer and professor at UBC, known for discovering integrin-linked kinase and co-founding SignalChem Lifesciences.
Shoukat Hussain Shoro
Shoukat Hussain Shoro (شوڪت حسين شورو, 1947–2021) was a Pakistani short story writer, playwright, and essayist regarded as a pioneer of the modern Sindhi short story.
Shoukhrat Mitalipov
Shoukhrat Mitalipov (Shoukhrat M. Mitalipov) is a Kazakh-born stem-cell and reproductive biologist at Oregon Health & Science University, first to derive human embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer in 2013.
Should I Marry a Murderer?
Should I Marry a Murderer? is a 2026 three-part Netflix true-crime documentary directed by Josh Allott about pathologist Caroline Muirhead, who stayed engaged to Sandy McKellar after he confessed to killing cyclist Tony Parsons and helped police gather evidence.
Should I Stay or Should I Go
"Should I Stay or Should I Go" is a 1982 song by The Clash from Combat Rock, written mainly by Mick Jones, sung by Jones with Spanish backing vocals. It hit UK No. 17 in 1982 and No. 1 in 1991 after a Levi's 501 commercial, the band's only chart-topper.
Shoulder
The shoulder is the body region connecting the arm to the trunk, built from three bones and four joints, the most mobile joint system in the body.
Shoulder (road)
A shoulder, also called the hard shoulder or breakdown lane, is the strip beside a road's carriageway that supports the pavement and provides space for emergency stops, drainage, and pedestrians or bicyclists.
Shoulder Arms
Shoulder Arms (1918) is Charlie Chaplin's silent First National war comedy, also titled Camouflage, in which a bumbling doughboy dreams of capturing the Kaiser; his biggest commercial hit to date, released 27 October 1918.
Shoulder arthroplasty
Shoulder arthroplasty replaces the arthritic shoulder joint with a prosthesis, in anatomic, hemiarthroplasty, and reverse forms; the reverse design, published by Grammont in 1993, compensates for a torn rotator cuff.