digger

noun

dig·​ger ˈdi-gər 

1

a

: one that digs

b

: a tool or machine for digging

2

Digger dated, offensive : an Indigenous person of the western United States from a culture (such as that of the Paiute) that traditionally dug roots for food

3

or Digger chiefly Australia and New Zealand : an Australian or New Zealand soldier

Examples of digger in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This is the one who shows up, locked and loaded and ready for duty, in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger, one bumpy ride of a satire slash symphony-of-burning-Rome-fiddlers. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026

Digger is unlike any film coming from a major Hollywood studio in years, at least in my memory. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

Skunks are avid diggers than can cause significant damage around your home’s foundation. — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 24 Sep. 2026

Just as Grossman had to reconstruct the camp at Treblinka after attempts to erase it, so Littell methodically — at times forensically, through interviews with pathologists, survivors and grave diggers — recreates the killings in Bucha. — Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for digger

• bigger
• jigger
• rigger
• rigor
• trigger
• vigor
• gravedigger
• obligor
• outrigger