A slingshot or slingshut (primarily American), hand catapult (primarily British English), shanghai or ging(primarily Australian and New Zealand), bean shooter, or flip, is normally a small hand-powered projectile weapon. Wrist-braced slingshots with tubular banding might generically be called "wrist rockets", however, the term Wrist-Rocket is a registered trademark of Saunders Archery. The classic form consists of a Y-shaped frame held in the off hand, with two  natural-rubber strips attached to the uprights. The other ends of the strips lead back to a pocket that holds the projectile. The dominant hand grasps the pocket and draws it back to the desired extent to provide power for the projectile - up to a full span of the arm with sufficiently long bands.

Slingshot! is a quarterly anarchist newspaper published in Berkeley, California since 1988 by the Slingshot Collective. It is a non-profit project of the Long Haul Infoshop. Slingshot provides free subscriptions to prisoners and people with low income in the United States.