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Special may refer to:

  • Special needs, a diagnosis used to classify children as needing more services than those children without special needs
  • Special teams, units in American football and Canadian football that are on the field during kickoffs, free kicks, punts, and field goal and extra point attempts
  • Television special, a television program, typically a short film or television movie, which interrupts or temporarily replaces scheduled programming
  • Very special episode, an advertising term for an episode of a television programme that deals with a serious and/or controversial social issue
  • Special effects, visual effects used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to create scenes that cannot be achieved by normal means
  • The Specials, a British Two Tone band formed in 1977 in Coventry
  • "Special", a 1998 song by Garbage
  • The Specials (film), a 2000 film about a group of superheroes on their day off
  • Special (Lost), an episode of the TV series Lost
  • Special (lighting), a stage light that is used for a single, specific purpose
  • Adcox Special, a biplane built in Portland, Oregon in 1929
  • Special (film), a 2006 film about a man who believes he is a superhero.

Special may also be:

  • A synonym for sale, especially rotating daily sales on one particular item in restaurants and department stores
  • A euphemism for someone with a mental disability

See also