Digger Explained

Digger or diggers may refer to:

Equipment

• Excavator, heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper, bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house".
• Backhoe loader, digger or mini digger in British parlance
• Backhoe, digger or mini digger in British parlance

Places

• Digger, Leh, a village in India

People

• Labourer, a person who works in manual labor types
• Digger (nickname)
• Digger (soldier), Australian and New Zealand slang for a veteran
• Digger Indians, ethnic slur for Native Americans in California
• Digger, person who frequently submits or reads stories on the technology news website Digg

Fictional characters

• Digger (mascot), mascot of the London Irish rugby football club
• Diggers, characters in the video game Mega Man Legends
• Digger (Marvel Comics), a comic book character owned by Marvel Comics
• Willard "Digger" Barnes, in the American television series Dallas
• Digger (NASCAR), the mascot for the NASCAR on Fox "gopher cam", from The Adventures of Digger and Friends
• Digger, a character in Kathryn Lasky's book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole
• Digger Mole, a character from Shirt Tales
• George "Digger" Harkness, the first Captain Boomerang DC Comics villain
• Digby "Digger" O'Dell, on the American radio and television shows Life of Riley and the 1949 film

Arts and entertainment

Literature

• Digger (webcomic), a webcomic by Ursula Vernon
• The Digger, a Scottish weekly magazine
• The Digger (alternative magazine), a 1970s Australian magazine
• Diggers (1990), the second book in The Nome Trilogy by Terry Pratchett

Film

• Diggers (1931 film), an Australian film directed by F. W. Thring
• Digger (1993 film), a Canadian film starring Leslie Nielsen
• Diggers (2006 film), an American film starring Paul Rudd and Lauren Ambrose
• Digger (2020 film), a Greek film

Television

• "Digger" (Bottom), a 1992 episode from the British television sitcom Bottom
• Diggers (TV series), a reality television show on the National Geographic Channel

Music

• Digger (band), a punk band
• The Diggers (band), a Scottish band

Video games

• Heiankyo Alien, a 1979 video game released as Digger in North America
• Digger (video game), a computer game from 1983
• Diggers (video game), launch title for the Amiga CD32 videogaming console
• Digger, one of the eight tools available in the video game Lemmings

Organizations

• Diggers, a group of radicals during the English Civil War
• Diggers (theater), a 1960s collective of the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, US
• Bendigo Diggers, former name of Bendigo Football Club, an Australian rules football club

Other uses

• Digger wasp (disambiguation), multiple wasp families
• Digger, style of motorcycle, similar to a chopper
• A nickname for a front engine dragster
• The Diggers (Van Gogh), 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh

See also

• Dig (disambiguation)
• Digging (disambiguation)