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digger

noun
/ˈdɪɡɚ/US/ˈdɪɡə/UK

Etymology

* Derived from Australian Colonial goldfields terminology. The term represents the mateship of common interests and activities where most of the population were gold miners, and almost everybody was a mate, a "digger", with a common cause against the troopers, the traps, the mining license inspectors.

  1. inherited from dyggar

Definitions

  1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.

    • The cables are placed from 16 in. to 2 ft. down, and to save time and labour use was made of a mechanical digger lent by the Swedish State Railways.

  2. A tool for digging.

    • The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn′t dug any holes for a long, long time.

  3. A spade (playing card).

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. One who digs.

      • You′ve tried the supposedly sure method of squirting the digger with water from a hose, and that hasn′t worked.[…]This step will discourage 99 percent of the diggers.
      • Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that′s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.

    2. A gold miner, one who digs for gold.

    3. An Australian soldier.

      • Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
      • For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.
      • Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger, to honour their fellow workers.

    4. a friendly term of address, especially to a man.

    5. A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native…

      A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians.

    6. A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.

    7. One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as…

      One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.

    8. One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.

    9. A user of the American news aggregator Digg.

      • Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral.
      • As Justin Halpern told me, “I think what both [Rob Corddry and actress Kristen Bell] did, especially Rob, was that they got Shit My Dad Says seen by people that aggressively share stuff online. Diggers, Redditors, etc.[…]”

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Derived

bonedigger, clamdiggers, digger bee, diggeress, digger pine, Diggers Camp, Diggers Rest, digger wasp, food digger, gumdigger, oil-digger, potato digger, welldigger

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA