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Digger
Digger and Diggers can have a number of different meanings:

  • Digger , a pop punk band.
  • Digger is the name of a comic book character, owned by Marvel Comics.
  • Digger , a classic computer game from 1983
  • Digger , The Digger Foundation is a Swiss humanitarian and non profit organization. Its goal is to promote technological assistance project in humanitarian demining.
  • Digger is the official mascot of London Irish rugby football club.
  • Digger , Australian and New Zealand slang term for a soldier.
  • Digger a long, low style of custom motorcycle. A type of chopper related to a bobber, but lower and longer.
  • Digger , a webcomic drawn and written by Ursula Vernon, featuring a wombat protagonist in an engagingly-odd fantasy world
  • DIGGER, A Chicago service offering utility locating services for contractors and private citizens.


Also:
  • Grave Digger , the name of the German heavy metal band in 1987.
  • A slang term for fecal matter.
  • A Northern German slang word used to informally address a male person.
  • An engineering vehicle: Excavator
  • Australian term for a gold miner (on the 'diggings') during the gold rushes of the 1850s
  • Digger the Dermatophyte is a cartoon figure on an advertisement for Lamisil
  • Digger Mole, a character from Shirt Tales.
  • One who frequently submits or reads stories on Digg, a popular technology news website. (a.k.a. Diggr)
  • Digger is also one of the members of "The Band" in Kathryn Lasky's series Guardians of Ga'Hoole.


Diggers

  • Diggers, a democratic egalitarian group of radicals during the English Civil War.
    • The Diggers' Song
  • Diggers , a launch title for the Amiga CD32 videogaming console
  • Diggers , a 2006 film starring Paul Rudd and Lauren Ambrose
  • Diggers , the second book in The Bromeliad trilogy by Terry Pratchett
  • Diggers , an anarchist collective of the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco formed in 1966.
  • Diggers, a group of Russian based Urban Explorers
  • Diggers, a nickname for the German soccer club FC Ingolstadt 04
  • Diggers, an obsolete derogatory term used to refer to the Paiute, a Native American tribe of California, but it was also more generally applied to the Native Americans of California.
  • The Diggers, a Scottish post-Brit-pop power-pop band
  • A unit in the game Battle Realms WotW that is responsible for reconnaissance. (derived from the soldier nickname)


See also

  • Dig




Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger
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