Digger

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Digger and Diggers can have a number of different meanings:

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1. Australian and New Zealand slang term for a soldier: Digger (soldier)
2. Australian term for a gold miner (on the 'diggings') during the gold rushes of the 1850s
3. The name of a computer program: Digger (computer game)
4. An engineering vehicle: Excavator
5. An obsolete derogatory term for the Native Americans of California
6. 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"
7. The name of the German heavy metal band Grave Digger in 1987.
8. Digger (webcomic), a webcomic drawn and written by Ursula Vernon, featuring a wombat protagonist in an engagingly-odd fantasy world
9. Digger the Dermatophyte is a cartoon figure on an advertisement for Lamisil
10. One who habitually and/or effectively submits stories to digg.com, a popular technology news website
11. Digger is the official mascot of London Irish rugby football club.
12. A slang term for fecal matter.
13. A pop punk band. See Digger (band)
14. A tool to troubleshoot DNS related queries. Coming up as replacement for nslookup.
15. The name of a comic book character, owned by Marvel Comics:Digger (comics)

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