Crowbar (tool)

A crowbar is a tool consisting of a metal pole (object) with a curved side and flattened extremities, often with a small fissure on one point. It is used as a lever to either force apart two objects or to remove nail (engineering). Crowbars are commonly used to open nailed wooden boxes.

Crowbars are Lever#First-class levers.

In the computer games Half-Life and Half-Life 2, a crowbar is the basic melee weapon wielded by the player's character, Gordon Freeman. It became a popular symbol in the Half-Life fan culture.