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digger
noun- a goldminer AUSTRALIA, 1849
- Other diggers stood around and laughed in envy at the fierce enjoyment of a man temporarily rich. For the digger had just struck gold. — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 3, 1976
- an Australian or New Zealand soldier of either world war AUSTRALIA, 1916
Also extended to soldiers fighting in other military conflicts such as the Korean and Vietnam wars. Originally applied only to infantry soldiers of World War 1 who spent much time digging and maintaining trenches. A term of high approbation. - The cops don’t go around pinching us Diggers. We’ve only got the military Jacks to worry about. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 109, 1956
- Quite all right officer. An old digger myself. I understand. — Barry Oakley, A Salute to the Great McCarthy, p. 97, 1970
- This short story illustrates the immense courage and resolution of the Aussie digger to pursue the task at hand. — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
- “But he kept soldiering on.” “Ahh he’s a digger alright. Got a heart like a lion that boy.” — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 36, 1992
- Eight of their fellow Diggers who lay wounded on the Kokoda Trail were massacred by a Japanese collaborator. — Aussie Post, p. 4, 29 August 1998
- by extension from sense 2, a term of male address AUSTRALIA, 1920
- an undertaker US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 9, 1945
- a person who buys a large number of tickets to a popular entertainment and resells the tickets to a broker US, 1927
- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 71, 1973
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 73, 1981
- a member of the Digger hippie counterculture support-network US
Named for a mid-C17 English sect that practised agrarian communism. - As they say, it’s free because it’s yours. In the Hashberry they’re known as the Diggers. — The San Francisco Oracle, 1966
- They are THE DIGGERS. And everyday at four o’clock they provide anybody with anything to eat. — Berkeley Barb, p. 3, 21 October 1966
- The Diggers are hip to poetry. Everything is free, do your own thing. — Trip Without a Ticket, Winter 1966–67
- — Joe David Brown (Editor), The Hippies, p. 217, 1967: “Glossary of hippie terms”
- The largese is open to all–the digger motto is, “Free but please do not steal.” — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 59, 1968
- Why did the hippie take a job in the cemetery? He was a Digger! — Paul Laikin, 101 Hippie Jokes, 1968
- Hapt is a free roneoed digger paper published in Colchester, linked with diggers in Europe. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 176, 1970
- a pickpocket, especially a clumsy one US, 1931
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 68, 1949
- — The New American Mercury, p. 707, 1950
- a face-first fall US
- — Judi Sanders, Faced and Faded, Hanging to Hurl, p. 11, 1993
- a solitary confinement cell US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, 1992
- a drag racing car US
- The term originated to describe drag cars because they seem to “dig” themselves out of the hole as they accelerate from the starting line. — Jim Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 44, 1993
- the grade “D” US, 1968
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 104, 1968
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