A whisker is a type of mammalian hair.

Whisker or Whiskers may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Whiskers, the main family group in the British television show Meerkat Manor
  • Whiskers, a fictional winged cat in Michael Moorcock's Multiverse
  • Whiskers, a fictional villain in The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter
  • Captain Whiskers, villain of the video game Sonic Rush Adventure
  • Mr. Whiskers, a character in the American animated television series Brandy & Mr. Whiskers

People

  • Alexander Whisker (1819–1907), New Zealand soldier and diarist
  • Andrew Mowatt Whisker (1907–1992), Canadian lumberman and politician

Other uses

  • Whisker (horse) (1812–1832), a thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 1815 Epsom Derby
  • Whisker (metallurgy), a strong hair-shaped protrusion on a metal's surface
  • Whisker, in statistics an element of a box plot
  • Whisker, a project of the Cult of the Dead Cow which checked for security vulnerabilities in web servers
  • "Whiskers", slang for human facial hair on the chin or cheeks
  • Lake Whisker, a lake of Wisconsin

See also

  • Whiskas, a brand of cat food
  • Whiskering, an operation in category theory between a functor and a natural transformation