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An octopus is a sea animal with eight limbs.
Octopus may also refer to:
Film and television
- Octopus (2000 film), an American film produced by Nu Image
- Is Your Daughter Safe? or The Octopus, a 1927 film
- La piovra or The Octopus, a 1984–2001 Italian television series
- The Octopus, a fictional pair of Siamese twins in The City of Lost Children
Games
- OCTOPUS (fictional organisation), a fictional organisation in the From Russia with Love video game
- Name This Game or Octopus, an Atari 2600 video game
- Octopus, a 1981 Game & Watch game
- Octopus, a variant of British bulldogs, a playground game
- In chess, an octopus is a knight strongly placed in enemy territory.
Literature
- The Octopus: A Story of California, a 1901 novel by Frank Norris
- The Octopus (comics), a character in The Spirit
- The Octopus, a 1940 book by Elizabeth Dilling
- "The Octopus", a fictional article in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con, a 2012 book by Guy Lawson
Music
Artists
- Octopus (Belgian band) (1973–1980)
- Octopus (English band), a 1969–1971 band featuring Paul Griggs and Nigel Griggs
- Octopus (Scottish band), a 1993–1997 Britpop band from Shotts, Lanarkshire
- The Octopus Project, a band from Texas
- Oktopus or Alap Momin, American musician, DJ, recording engineer
Albums
- Octopus (Gentle Giant album) (1972)
- Octopus (The Human League album) (1995)
- Octopus (The Bees album) (2007)
- The Octopus (album), a 2011 album by Amplifier
- Í Hakanum/Octopus or Octopus, a 1980 album by Mezzoforte
- Octopus: The Best of Syd Barrett (1992)
- Octopuss, a 1983 album by Cozy Powell
- Octopus (Kris Davis and Craig Taborn album) (2018)
Songs
- "Octopus" (Syd Barrett song) (1969)
- "Octopus" (Bloc Party song) (2012)
- "Octopus", a 1961 song by Billie Jean Horton
- "Octopus", an instrumental by Mezzoforte from Í Hakanum/Octopus
- "Octopus", a 1979 song by The Freshies
- "Octopus", a 1999 track by Mertzbow from Tentacle (album)
Computing and technology
- OCTOPUS (network), an early computer network at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Octopus (software), for quantum-mechanical calculations of molecules and solids
Enterprises and organizations
- Octopus card, a Hong Kong stored value smart card launched in 1997
- Octopus Cards Limited, the operator of Octopus card
- Octopus Holdings Limited, holding company jointly owned by five major transport companies in Hong Kong
- Octopus Group, a British asset management company
- Octopus Energy, a British energy supply company
- Octopus Publishing Group, a British subsidiary of Lagardère Publishing, specialising in illustrated books
- Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations (OCTOPUS), a counter terrorism paramilitary unit in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, India
Other uses
- Octopus (genus), a large genus of octopuses
- Octopus (ride), an amusement ride
- Octopus (yacht)
- Octopus, a spare scuba-diving regulator apparatus
- The Octopus, a news story written by Danny Casolaro
See also
- Al the Octopus, mascot of the Detroit Red Wings
- Doctor Octopus, a character created in 1963 for Spider-Man comics
- Octopodidae, a family containing the majority of known octopus species
- Octopodoidea, a superfamily of all known octopods except for the argonautoids and vampyromorphs
- Octopus as food
- Octopussy (disambiguation)
- Legend of the Octopus, a Detroit team tradition
- Paul the Octopus, octopus with a history of correctly predicting the results of major German international football matches
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