A tombstone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.

Tombstone may also refer to:

Places

  • Tombstone, Arizona, U.S.
  • Tombstone Municipal Airport
  • Tombstone (mountain), in Oregon, U.S.
  • Tombstone Mountain, in the Canadian Rockies
  • Tombstone Territorial Park, in Yukon, Canada
  • Tombstone Mountain (Yukon), in Tombstone Territorial Park
  • Tombstone Hill, Antarctica

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die, a 1942 Western film
  • Tombstone (film), a 1993 Western film

Literature

  • Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest, a 1927 novel by Walter Noble Burns
  • Tombstone, a 1933 novel by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • Tombstone, a 1981 novel by Matt Braun
  • Tombstone, a 1983 novel by Hank Mitchum, the fourth installment in the Stagecoach Station series
  • Tombstone (character), a Marvel Comics character who debuted in Web of Spider-Man #36 (March 1988)
  • Tombstones, a 1995 duology of young adult horror novels by John Peel
  • Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine, a 2008 non-fiction book by Yang Jisheng

Music

  • "Tombstone" (Ocean Alley song), 2019
  • "Tombstone" (Rod Wave song), 2021
  • "Tombstone", a song by Civil War from The Last Full Measure, 2016
  • Tombstone Records, a record label founded by the band Dead Moon

Other

  • Tombstone, a combat robot competing in BattleBots

Other uses

  • Tombstone (advertising), a particular type of text-only print advertisement
  • Tombstone (financial industry), a type of print notice to formally announce a particular transaction
  • Tombstone (data store), a deleted record in a replica of a distributed data store
  • Tombstone (manufacturing), a fixture onto which are placed parts to be manufactured
  • Tombstone (pizza), a brand of frozen pizza
  • Tombstone (programming), a mechanism to detect dangling pointers
  • Tombstone (typography), a symbol often used in mathematical proofs
  • Tombstone, or museum label, describing exhibited objects
  • Tombstone, another ringname of wrestler 911
  • TOMB STONE, S-300 surface-to-air missile system radar
  • Tombstoning
  • Tombstone (surfing), When surfer is held underwater and tries to climb up their leash the board is straight up and down
  • Tombstone (lazy deletions), a vacant slot that has been left behind by a lazy deletion in a data structure

See also

  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, an 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona Territory
  • Tombstone Piledriver, or kneeling reverse piledriver, a professional wrestling move