Big Red

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Big Red has several meanings:

Contents 1 Sports 2 Works 3 Food and drink 4 Other

[edit] Sports

• Affectionate name of the racehorse Man O' War
• After Man O' War, affectionate name of the racehorses Phar Lap, Secretariat and Bonecrusher
• The nickname of the sports teams of Cornell University (see Cornell Big Red), Denison University, Steubenville (Ohio) High School, and a secondary nickname for the University of Nebraska and Indiana University Bloomington. Some fans of University of Wisconsin have tried to add this name to UW, but it has not caught on
• Big Red, the mascot of the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers
• Big Red, the mascot of the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals:
• The mascot of Chippewa Valley High School in Michigan
• Big Red, the costumed mascot of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks

[edit] Works

• Big Red, an album by folk artist Hugh Blumenfeld.
• Big Red, a non-fiction book about the author, Douglas C. Waller's trip on deployment with the crew of the USS Nebraska
• Big Red, a book by Jim Kjelgaard, about a boy and his Irish Setter, later made into a 1962 Walt Disney film titled Big Red.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog, a children's book.

[edit] Food and drink

• Big Red, a cinnamon-flavored gum made by Wrigley's
• Big Red, a brand of lemon and orange-flavored cream soda manufactured by a Texas company of the same name, primarily marketed in the Southern United States
• A cocktail made from Irish Cream and cinnamon schnapps.
• Nickname for Coca-Cola, used especially by employees of Pepsi-Cola.

[edit] Other

• The name of a large, newly discovered jellyfish (also called Granrojo).
• A common term for the Red Kangaroo.
• The nickname for the US Construction and Energy Services company Halliburton
• The largest sand dune in the Simpson Desert, central Australia.
• The Holland Harbor Lighthouse, also known as Big Red, located in Ottawa County, Michigan at the entrance of a channel connecting Lake Michigan with Lake Macatawa
• The name of a cheeerleader from the movie Bring It On.
• The Big Red One refers to the First Infantry Division of the United States Army.
  • The Big Red One is a 1980 movie about the same during World War II.
  • Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is a video game made in 2005 where you play that division.
• A journalistic nickname of Microsoft, as an antithesis to IBM being referred to as Big Blue.