49er

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49er or Forty-Niner originally referred to:

• A participant in the 1849 California Gold Rush

49er or Forty-Niner may also refer to:

Sports

• San Francisco 49ers, American football team, named for the California Gold Rush prospectors
• Charlotte 49ers, athletic teams of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Long Beach State 49ers, athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach
• Yuba 49ers, athletic teams of Yuba College
• 49er (dinghy), a class of racing dinghy
• Forty Niner (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Arsenal F.C., English football team which went 49 games unbeaten in 2003 and 2004

Music

• 49ers (band), an Italian Italo house and Eurodance project
• The 49ers, an American hip-hop duo

Other

• 49er flapjack, a sourdough crepe.
• Top 10: The Forty-Niners, a novel by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
• The Forty-Niners, a group of shōjo manga artists also known as the Year 24 Group
• "The 49ers", a group of Cathay Pacific Airways pilots fired on 9 July 2001
• 49er, the lowest initiated rank in a Triad
• A real ale brewed by the Ringwood Brewery with a strength, appropriately, of 4.9%
• A member of the 49th Battalion, CEF
• The Forty Niner or 49'er, a streamliner passenger train between San Francisco and Chicago operated by the Union Pacific Railroad

See also

• 49 (number)
• Forty-Eighters, Europeans involved in the revolutions of 1848
• Niner (disambiguation)