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===Digger===
===Digger===
:#[[Australia]]n and [[New Zealand]] slang term for a soldier: [[Digger (soldier)]]
:#[[Australia]]n and [[New Zealand]] slang term for a soldier: [[Digger (soldier)]]
:#[[Australia]]n term for a gold miner (on the 'diggings') during the [[gold rush]]es of the 1850s - origin of previous meaning
:#The name of a computer program: [[Digger (computer game)]]
:#The name of a computer program: [[Digger (computer game)]]
:#An [[engineering vehicle]]: [[Excavator]]
:#An [[engineering vehicle]]: [[Excavator]]

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Digger and Diggers can have a number of different meanings:

Digger

  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 - origin of previous meaning
  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. The Digger Song found under 'Land Rights' on the List of protest songs.

Diggers

  1. A democratic utopian group of radicals during the English Civil War: Diggers (True Levellers)
  2. An American anarchist movement: Diggers (theater)
  3. Diggers, the second book in The Bromeliad trilogy by Terry Pratchett