Crowbar
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Crowbar may refer to:
- Crowbar (tool)Crowbar (tool)A crowbar, a wrecking bar, pry bar, or prybar, or sometimes a prise bar or prisebar, and more informally a jimmy, jimmy bar, jemmy or gooseneck is a tool consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, often with a small fissure on one or both ends for removing nails...
- Crowbar (alcoholic beverage)Crowbar (alcoholic beverage)The Crowbar is a type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda. The name refers to the construction workers in Canada that would order these drinks after a long day of hard labor building railroad tracks in the 1940s...
- Spud barSpud barthumb|right|250px|A spud bar, scale in inches/feetA spud bar, or in British English usually crowbar or just bar, is a long straight metal bar used lengthwise as a hand tool to deliver blows to a target, causing the target to move, break up or deform. It can also be used as a lever to move objects...
, a long straight metal bar used lengthwise as a hand tool to deliver blows to a target, or for leverage - Crowbar (circuit)Crowbar (circuit)A crowbar circuit is an electrical circuit used to prevent an overvoltage condition of a power supply unit from damaging the circuits attached to the power supply. It operates by putting a short circuit or low resistance path across the voltage source, much as if one dropped a tool of the same name...
, an electrical circuit used to prevent an overvoltage condition, by putting a short circuit or low resistance path across the voltage source - Crowbar AwardsCrowbar AwardsThe Crowbar Awards are open to full time tertiary students worldwide. There are six categories open for entries, advertising, design, photography, interactive, film, and the Crowbar Challenge. The awards are run by the Association of Accredited Adversting Agents Singapore.The Crowbar Awards were...
, a Singapore-based awards for tertiary media students. - The tradename of a make of snow goggles
Music
- Crowbar (American band), a sludge metal band from Louisiana
- Crowbar (album)Crowbar (album)Crowbar was recorded in New Orleans in 1992 by Crowbar. The album went on to sell 100,000 copies on the independent label Pavement Music . The singles "All I Had " and "Existence Is Punishment" propelled the band on MTV and achieved international attention...
, an album by the band
- Crowbar (album)
- Crowbar (Canadian band)Crowbar (Canadian band)Crowbar was a Canadian rock band based in Hamilton, Ontario, probably best known for their 1971 hit "Oh, What a Feeling".- History :From 1969 to 1970, most of the members of the group had been a backup band for Ronnie Hawkins under the name "And Many Others"...
, a rock band from the 1970s
People
- KoevoetKoevoetKoevoet , also known as "Operation K" and officially known as the "South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Unit" , was a police counter insurgency unit in South-West Africa during the 1970s and 1980s...
(which is Afrikaans and Dutch for crowbar), a South West African Police counterinsurgency unit - Crowbar (comics)Crowbar (comics)Crowbar is a fictional supervillain in the DC Universe. He first appeared in Justice League of America #233 .-Fictional character biography:...
, a member of the DC Comics supervillain group The Cadre - The ring name of professional wrestler Chris Ford