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  digger

  noun

  a person or an animal that digs.
• Digger
  Digger

  noun

  (sometimes not capital)

digger

American  

[dig-er] / ˈdɪg ər /

noun

• diggers
  plural

1. a person or an animal that digs.

2. a tool, part of a machine, etc., for digging.

3. Also called Digger Indian. (initial capital letter) a member of any of several Indian peoples of western North America, especially of a tribe that dug roots for food.

4. an Australian or New Zealand soldier of World War I.

5. (initial capital letter) a member of a group that advocated the abolition of private property and began in 1649 to cultivate certain common lands.

6. Slang. a person hired by a scalper to buy tickets to a show or performance for resale by the scalper at inflated prices.

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Digger ¹ British  

/ ˈdɪɡə /

noun

1. archaic (sometimes not capital)

   1. an Australian or New Zealander, esp a soldier: often used as a term of address

   2. ( as modifier )

      a Digger accent

2. one of a number of tribes of America whose diet was largely composed of roots dug out of the ground

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digger ² British  

/ ˈdɪɡə /

noun

1. a person, animal, or machine that digs

2. a miner, esp one who digs for gold

3. a tool or part of a machine used for excavation, esp a mechanical digger fitted with a head for digging trenches

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• diggers
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of digger

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at dig ¹, -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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But with a final heave of the digger bucket, a shower of gold was released from the soil.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

In central London, a construction digger unearths an unexploded World War II bomb, and it starts to tick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Nesbitt, who grew up near Rochester, N.Y., worked as a grave digger in high school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

An AFP journalist in Nangarhar's Bihsud district said residents from around the remote and mountainous area joined rescuers in one village, using a digger and shovels to search for bodies under the rubble.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

Instead, I was just the lone digger of a fake atomic bomb shelter.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

Marketing for a movie like "Digger" can cost up to $100 million.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Digger was the last standalone release for the studio before its recent takeover by Paramount.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Cruise’s Digger Rockwell rises from bed and tries to feed his bizarrely acting cat before learning of an explosion on his oil rig in Greenland.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

And if Cruise wins his much-coveted Oscar for his role as Digger, that is also a plus, Galloway said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

J.T. and Digger were punching each other in the arms and made a beeline for the store, but I walked up to the front to thank Carl for the ride.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

"It's better than anything else... There aren't many jobs in Kabul," said the 21-year-old, above the din of diggers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

Mohammadullah Mubariz, the manager of a mining company with about a hundred labourers and 20 diggers, said the team can extract "200 to 300 grams of gold" in a week.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The diggers were efficient, cramming in so many graves that, from above, the field near the University of Sudan’s medical campus looked like a frieze of an undulating, gravel-brown sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

Eventually, two diggers were deployed on Thursday to dredge a channel for the whale to swim into deeper water, and rescue teams worked late into the day under floodlights to save it.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

He sends Theo photographs of some recent drawings he’s done: peat diggers in dunes, potato grubbers, and a sower.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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