Big Red

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Big Red has several meanings:

Contents 1 Sports 2 Works 3 Food and drink 4 Other 5 People

[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-Madison 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
• Big Red is the mascot for the presitgious Lawrenceville School.

[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 cheerleader 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.

[edit] People

• French rapper and toaster Stéphane Joaquim, solo artist and member of the French group Raggasonic goes by the alias Big Red.
• Late Show with David Letterman announcer Alan Kalter.