Badger (disambiguation)

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Badger refers to several species of short-legged, heavy-set carnivores in the weasel family.

Badger may also refer to:

Places

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

People

Music

  • Badger (band), an early 1970s rock band featuring Tony Kaye
  • Badger, an album by the Figgs

Fictional characters

  • Badger (comics) (The Badger), a comic book character and series created in 1982
  • Badger (Firefly), a minor character from the American TV show Firefly
  • Badger (Monarch of the Glen), a character from UK TV series Monarch of the Glen
  • Badger Lords, of whom there are several in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
  • Bill Badger, the main character of a series of books by Denys Watkins-Pitchford including Bill Badger and the Pirates
  • Badger Beadon, a character from Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
  • Badger, a character in the children's book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • Badger, a character in the children's novel The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
  • Badger, a character in the English children's television programme Bodger and Badger
  • Badger, a character in the television show Breaking Bad

Transport

  • S.S. Badger, an auto/passenger ferry operating on Lake Michigan, U.S.
  • USS William Badger (1861), an American Civil War Union supply ship and ship's tender
  • Tupolev Tu-16, NATO codename Badger, a Soviet twin-engine jet bomber
  • British Rail Class 89, nicknamed "The Badger", an electric locomotive developed by British Rail
  • Badger Armoured Engineering Vehicle, a Canadian Combat engineering vehicle based on the Leopard 1 tank
  • Badger, an Amtrak train on the Chicago-Milwaukee (U.S.) corridor now served by the Hiawatha Service
  • Badger Bus, a service between Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
  • Badgerline, a bus company in the southwest of England
  • Badger (automobile company), a car company in Wisconsin from 1910–1911

Other uses

  • Badger (person), an archaic English term for a dealer in food
  • Badger Badger Badger or Badgers, a short animation by Jonti Picking
  • Badger Books, a British paperback imprint of the 1950s and '60s
  • Badger Game, an extortion scheme
  • Brock Badgers, athletics teams for Brock University, Canada
  • Upshot-Knothole Badger, a 1953 nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, U.S.
  • Badger (TV series), a 1999 British series starring Jerome Flynn
  • Badger, in law, to direct argumentative questions at a witness
  • Badger Ales, beers brewed by Hall & Woodhouse
  • Breezy Badger, a code name for version 5.10 of the Linux software Ubuntu
  • St John Badger, a member of St John Ambulance aged 5–10
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