Badger (disambiguation)

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A badger is any of several species of short-legged, heavy-set carnivores in the weasel family.

Badger may also refer to:

Places

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

People

  • Badger (person)
    , an archaic English term for a dealer in food
  • Badger (surname)
  • Dorgon, a Manchu prince and Emperor of the Qing dynasty, whose name literally means "badger" in Manchu

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Badger (comics), a comic book character and series created in 1982
  • Badger (Firefly)
    , a minor character from the American TV show Firefly
  • Badger (Monarch of the Glen)
    , a character from UK TV series Monarch of the Glen
  • Badger, a character in the children's book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • Badger, a character in the children's novel
    The Animals of Farthing Wood
    by Colin Dann
  • Badger, a character in the English children's television programme
    Bodger and Badger
  • Badger (Breaking Bad)
    , a character in the television show Breaking Bad
  • Bill Badger, the main character of a series of books by Denys Watkins-Pitchford including Bill Badger and the Pirates
  • Lt. Cdr. Robert Badger (The Artful Bodger), a character in several John Winton naval novels
  • Badger Beadon, a character from Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
  • Badger Lords, of whom there are several in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
  • Badger Myer, the younger brother in the film Better Off Dead

Music

Television

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Transport

  • Badger (automobile company), a car company in Wisconsin from 1910 to 1911
  • Badger, an Amtrak train on the Chicago-Milwaukee (U.S.) corridor now served by the Hiawatha Service
  • Badger armoured engineering vehicle, a modified version of the Leopard 1 tank, used by the Canadian and German armies
  • Nikola Badger
    , a cancelled proposed electric pickup truck
  • Badger Bus, a service between Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
  • Badgerline, a bus company in the southwest of England
  • British Rail Class 89, nicknamed "The Badger", an electric locomotive developed by British Rail
  • S.S. Badger
    , an auto/passenger ferry operating on Lake Michigan, U.S.
  • Tupolev Tu-16, NATO codename Badger, a Soviet twin-engine jet bomber
  • USS William Badger (1861)
    , an American Civil War Union supply ship and ship's tender

Other uses

  • Badger, to direct argumentative questions at a person
  • Badger, the South African variant of the Finnish Patria AMV (Armored Modular Vehicle)
  • Badger Ales, beers brewed by Hall & Woodhouse
  • Badger Game
    , an extortion scheme
  • Breezy Badger, a code name for version 5.10 of the Linux software
    Ubuntu
  • Brock Badgers, athletics teams for Brock University, Canada
  • St John Badger, a youth member (aged 5–10) of the
    St John Ambulance
    voluntary organisation
  • Upshot-Knothole Badger
    , a 1953 nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, U.S.

See also