Digger

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Digger and Diggers can have a number of different meanings:

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• Australian and New Zealand slang term for a soldier: Digger (soldier)
• Australian term for a gold miner (on the 'diggings') during the gold rushes of the 1850s
• The name of a computer game by Windmill: Digger (computer game)
• An engineering vehicle: Excavator
• An obsolete derogatory term for the Native Americans of California
• An northern German slang espression generally used around Hamburg and in Schleswig-Holstein. The meaning of the word (originally "Dicker" meant "fat guy") is "buddy"
• The name of the German heavy metal band Grave Digger in 1987.
• Digger (webcomic), a webcomic drawn and written by Ursula Vernon, featuring a wombat protagonist in an engagingly-odd fantasy world
• Digger the Dermatophyte is a cartoon figure on an advertisement for Lamisil
• One who habitually and/or effectively submits or reads stories on digg.com, a popular technology news website. (a.k.a. Diggr)
• Digger is the official mascot of London Irish rugby football club.
• A slang term for fecal matter.
• A pop punk band. See Digger (band)
• A tool to troubleshoot DNS related queries. Coming up as replacement for nslookup.
• Digger is the name of a comic book character, owned by Marvel Comics.

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• A democratic utopian group of radicals during the English Civil War: Diggers (True Levellers)
  • The Diggers' Song
• An American anarcho-socialist movement: Diggers (theater)
• Diggers, the second book in The Bromeliad trilogy by Terry Pratchett
• Diggers, a 2006 film starring Lauren Ambrose
• Diggers, a group of Russian based Urban Explorers
• Diggers, a launchtitle for the Amiga CD32 videogaming console.
• Diggers, nickname for the german soccer club FC Ingolstadt 04