A badger is a short-legged, digging animal.

Badger or The Badger(s) may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Badger (comics), a superhero created in 1983
  • Badger, in 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows
  • Badger Beadon, in 1936 detective story Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
  • Bill Badger, in 1960 novel Bill Badger and the Pirates
  • Badger, in 1979 novel The Animals of Farthing Wood
  • Badger Myer, in 1985 film Better Off Dead
  • Badger Lords, in the Redwall fantasy novel series (1986–2011)
  • Badger, a puppet in TV programme Bodger & Badger (1989–1999)
  • Badger, in TV series Monarch of the Glen (2000–2005)
  • Badger, in the 2002 Firefly TV series
  • Badger, in TV series Breaking Bad (2008–2013)

Works

  • Badgers (animation) or Badger Badger Badger, a 2003 animated meme
  • The Badger (newspaper), of the University of Sussex since 1965
  • Badger (TV series), a 1999 British series
  • Badger Books, a British paperback imprint (1960–1967)
  • Badger, a 2001 EP by The Figgs
  • "The Badger", a 2018 episode of Ozark

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Badger (band), a 1970s British rock band

People and roles

  • Badger (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Badger (occupation), a food dealer in early Modern Britain
  • Bernard Hinault (born 1954), French cyclist nicknamed The Badger
  • Dorgon (lit. 'Badger') (1612–1650), Manchu prince and regent of the Qing dynasty
  • Vadym Sukharevsky (born 1984), Ukrainian military officer, callsign Badger
  • Badger, a youth volunteer for St John Ambulance

Places

Australia

  • Badger Island, Tasmania
  • Little Badger Island, Tasmania

United States

  • Badger, Alaska
  • Badger, California
  • Badger Hill, California
  • Badger, Iowa
  • Badger, Minnesota
  • Badger, South Dakota
  • Badger, Washington
  • Badger, Wisconsin
  • Badger Valley, a valley in Wisconsin
  • Badger's Island, Kittery, Maine
  • Wisconsin, "The Badger State"

Elsewhere

  • Badger, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • Badger, Shropshire, England

Sport

  • Brock Badgers, teams of Brock University, Canada
  • Wisconsin Badgers, teams of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
  • Bucky Badger, their mascot

Transport and the military

Businesses

  • Badger (automobile company), a car company in Wisconsin 1910–1911
  • Badgerline, a bus company in Bristol, England

Land vehicles

  • Badger IFV, a South African infantry fighting vehicle
  • Nikola Badger, a cancelled proposed electric pickup truck
  • Badger Bus, a service in Wisconsin, United States
  • British Rail Class 89, nicknamed Badger
  • Badger, a Chicago-Milwaukee Amtrak train now served by Hiawatha
  • Badger, an armoured engineering vehicle derivative of the Leopard 1

Ships

  • , a Lake Michigan ferry
  • , an American Civil War Union supply ship
  • , an English slave ship
  • , a hired armed cutter serving the Royal Navy
  • , several British ships

Other military uses

  • Tupolev Tu-16 (NATO codename: Badger), a Soviet twin-engine jet bomber
  • Badger, a 1953 American nuclear test within Operation Upshot–Knothole

Other uses

  • Badger, to question argumentatively in court
  • Badger Beers, brewed by Hall & Woodhouse
  • MMH-Badger MAC, a message authentication code

See also

  • Badgered, a 2005 animated short film
  • Bâdgir, an Iranian windcatcher
  • Badger game, an extortion scheme