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digger

 [dig-er]  

dig·ger

   [dig-er]
noun
1.
a person or an animal that digs.
2.
a tool, part of a machine, etc., for digging.
3.
(initial capital letter) Also called Digger Indian. 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) English History. a member of a group that advocated the abolition of private property and began in 1649 to cultivate certain common lands.
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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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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see dig1, -er1
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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digger (ˈdɪɡə)
 
—n
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

Digger (ˈdɪɡə)
 
—n
1.  archaic, slang (sometimes not capital)
 a.  an Australian or New Zealander, esp a soldier: often used as a term of address
 b.  (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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