Badger (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Badger may refer to:

• Badger: an animal, and specifically to:
  • Eurasian Badger found across Europe and Asia
  • American Badger found in North America
  • Ratel or honey badger found in Africa and Asia

Characters & People

• Badger (Farthing Wood), a fictional character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood
• Badger (band), an early 1970s rock band featuring Tony Kaye
• Badger (comics), a comic book character whose adventures were published by three separate US companies throughout the 1980s and early 1990s
• Badger (person), archaic English term for a dealer in food
• Badger (Firefly), a fictional character with a Cockney accent who appears in several episodes of the currently retired television show Firefly
• Len Badger, a footballer, who played for Sheffield United F.C. between 1962-1976
• Ruth Badger, runner up in the final of British TV show The Apprentice series 2 and is currently starring in the Sky One TV show The Big Idea
• Steve Badger, poker player
• Wisconsin Badgers, the collegiate athletic teams at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Bucky Badger, mascot of the University of Wisconsin

Things

• S.S. Badger, an auto/passenger ferry operating on Lake Michigan.
• Badger Badger Badger, an Internet animation.
• Breezy Badger, a code name for version 5.10 of Ubuntu (Linux distribution), released in 10/2005.
• Tupolev Tu-16, a Soviet twin-engine jet bomber (NATO codename Badger).
• Badger Armoured Engineering Vehicle, a Canadian Combat engineering vehicle based on the Leopard tank.
• British Rail Class 89, an electric locomotive developed by British Rail
• Badger Ales, beers brewed by Hall & Woodhouse. See Hall & Woodhouse for more information.
• Badger Records, a record label.

Places

• Badger, California, US
• Badger, Iowa, US
• Badger, Minnesota, US
• Badger, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Badger, Shropshire, UK
• Badger, South Dakota, US
• Badger Township, Polk County, Minnesota, US
• Wisconsin, US, "The Badger State"

Phrases

• "To badger" - a UK colloquialism for passing gas.