Digger

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Digger and Diggers can have a number of different meanings:

• Digger (band), a punk band.
• Digger (comics) is the name of a comic book character, owned by Marvel Comics.
• Digger (computer game), a classic computer game from 1983
• Digger (Foundation), The Digger Foundation is a Swiss humanitarian and non profit organization. Its goal is to promote technological assistance project in humanitarian demining.
• Digger (Mascot) is the official mascot of London Irish rugby football club.
• Digger (soldier), Australian and New Zealand slang term for a soldier.
• Digger (motorcycle type) a long, low style of custom motorcycle. A type of chopper related to a bobber, but lower and longer.
• Digger (webcomic), 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 (band), 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)^{[citation needed]}
• Digger (Guardians of Ga'Hoole) is also one of the members of "The Band" in Kathryn Lasky's series Guardians of Ga'Hoole.
• "Digger" is the name of the unofficial mascot for NASCAR on Fox, named after Fox Sports' "gopher cam".

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• Diggers, a democratic egalitarian group of radicals during the English Civil War.
  • The Diggers' Song
• Diggers (computer game), a launch title for the Amiga CD32 videogaming console
• Diggers (film), a 2006 film starring Paul Rudd and Lauren Ambrose
• Diggers (novel), the second book in The Bromeliad trilogy by Terry Pratchett
• Diggers (theater), 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)

[edit] See also

• Dig