Digger
nounnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈdɪɡə//
- United States//ˈdɪɡɚ//
A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
noun
- 1
A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
- 2
historicalOne of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
- 3
obsoleteOne of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
Etymology
* Derived from Australian Colonial goldfields terminology. The term represents the mateship of common interests and activities where most of the population were gold miners, and almost everybody was a mate, a "digger", with a common cause against the troopers, the traps, the mining license inspectors.
noun
- 1
A user of the American news aggregator Digg.
THANKS TO DIGG, the Web’s most frequented news-ranking site, we now know: Geeks like gaming gossip, incendiary technology policy stories, and NASA photos. Diggers vote early and often, and can get breaking news to the front page surprisingly quickly.
Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral.
As Justin Halpern told me, “I think what both [Rob Corddry and actress Kristen Bell] did, especially Rob, was that they got Shit My Dad Says seen by people that aggressively share stuff online. Diggers, Redditors, etc.[…]”
Etymology
From Digg + -er.
Forms
- plural
- Diggers