Shiner or The Shiner may refer to:
Entertainment and media
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''Shiner'' (2000 film), a 2000 film with Michael Caine
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''Shiner'' (2004 film), a 2004 film by Christian Calson
*”The Shiner” is a
Season 3 episode of American animated televisions series ''Recess''
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Shiner (band)
Shiner is an American post-hardcore/alternative rock band from Kansas City, Missouri that was active from 1992 to 2003. Since 2012 Shiner has been playing several shows a year. The band's new record ''Schadenfreude'' was released May 8, 2020, wit ...
, a band from Kansas City
* Shiners, the fireflies in ''
The Underland Chronicles''
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Shiner (comics)
Shiner was a British comic strip drawn by Mike Lacey. It was published in the magazine ''Whizzer and Chips'', where the character first appeared in the second issue in 1969. ''Whizzer and Chips'' characters were divided into "Whizz-kids" and "Chip ...
, fictional character in the UK comic ''Whizzer and Chips''
* ''Shining With The Shiner'' and ''Shiner Slattery'', books by
John A. Lee
John Alfred Alexander Lee (31 October 1891 – 13 June 1982) was a New Zealand politician and writer. He is one of the more prominent avowed socialism in New Zealand, socialists in New Zealand's political history.
Lee was elected as a me ...
in which Edmond Slattery (see below) is a central character
Food and drink
* Shiner beer, a brand of beer brewed in the
Spoetzl Brewery of Shiner, Texas
* Shiner, slang for
moonshine
Moonshine is high-proof liquor that is usually produced illegally. The name was derived from a tradition of creating the alcohol during the nighttime, thereby avoiding detection. In the first decades of the 21st century, commercial dist ...
, a high-proof corn-based alcohol spirit
People
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Shiner (surname) Shiner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*David Shiner (disambiguation), multiple people
*Dick Shiner (born 1942), American football player
* Esther Shiner (1924–1987), Canadian politician
*Lewis Shiner (born 1950), American ...
* "The Shiner", the nickname of early New Zealand itinerant worker
Edmond Slattery
Edmond (Ned) Slattery (1839 – 11 August 1927), known as "The Shiner", was a notable New Zealand swagger and rural labourer. He was born in County Clare, Ireland in about 1839. He emigrated to Australia in 1869 and worked on the goldfields ...
Places
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Shiner, Texas
Other
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Shiner (fish) Shiner is a common name used in North America for any of several kinds of small, usually silvery fish, in particular a number of cyprinids, but also e.g. the shiner perch (''Cymatogaster aggregata'').
Cyprinid shiners are:
* Eastern shiners, genus ...
, common name used for any of several kinds of small, usually silvery fish
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Shiner (Ottawa)
Shiners were gangs of Irish immigrants that formed in the early days of Bytown, later Ottawa, mainly active during the 1830s.
After the completion of the Rideau Canal in 1832, many Irish workers were left unemployed. The timber industry, the major ...
, a street gang of Irish immigrants in
Bytown
Bytown is the former name of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded on September 26, 1826, incorporated as a town on January 1, 1850, and superseded by the incorporation of the City of Ottawa on January 1, 1855. The founding was marked by a Grou ...
during the early 19th century
* Shiner, slang for a
black eye (a periorbital hematoma)
* Shiner, the internal codename for the
Apple Network Server
The Apple Network Server (ANS) was a line of PowerPC-based server computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from February 1996 to April 1997. It was codenamed "Shiner" and originally consisted of two models, the Network Se ...
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