Diggers
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The Gold Diggers logo featured a bearded man, who appeared to be a miner, carrying a pickax over his shoulder and wearing a headlamp with a baseball where the light should be.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
Diggers appear to have remained active, for example, near a historic Buddhist monastery.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 3, 2023
Diggers, bulldozers and other heavy equipment arrived and ripped up ground to lay sewage and water systems that were then topped with fresh tarmac roads and lined with neat pavements.
From Reuters • May 15, 2023
Diggers tear through the smashed concrete and twisted metal, sending clouds of dust into the air.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2023
She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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