Silver King

Silver King may refer to:

  • Silver King (baseball), Charles Koenig, a professional baseball player from the 19th century
  • Silver King (wrestler), the most well known gimmick used by professional wrestler César González
  • A silver king, another name for the species of fish better known as the Atlantic Tarpon
  • Silver King, the nickname for Tom Norman, the owner of the freak show that exhibited Joseph Merrick, known as the "Elephant Man"
  • Silver King, the name for the broadcast television arm of the Home Shopping Network, which later became USA Broadcasting
  • Silver King, the term used to often describe the individuals, dressed in cowboy outfits who deliver meat on skewers at churrascaria restaurants, often known in North America as "Ten Different Meats"
  • Silver King Creek, a tributary of the Carson River in Carson-Iceberg Wilderness where Paiute cutthroat trout are endemic.

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or king:

    It is told that some divorcees, elated by their freedom, pause on leaving the courthouse to kiss a front pillar, or even walk to the Truckee to hurl their wedding rings into the river; but boys who recover the rings declare they are of the dime-store variety, and accuse the throwers of fraudulent practices.
    —Administration in the State of Neva, U.S. public relief program. Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State (The WPA Guide to Nevada)

    Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)