Dipper (disambiguation)
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A dipper is a passerine bird in the genus Cinclus
Dipper may also refer to:
Objects
- Dipper (spoon), a utensil for dipping liquids
- Honey dipper, a wooden utensil with deep grooves for drizzling honey on breadstuff
- Part of a steam shovel, power shovel or backhoe which carries the bucket
- Dipper (painting), a container for oil for painting
- Grid dip oscillator or dipper, a resonance frequency measuring instrument
- Dipper well, a perpetual-flow sink often used in coffeehouses and ice cream shops
In the military
- HMS Dipper, former name of Henstridge Airfield, Henstridge, Somerset, England
- USS Dipper (AM-357), an American World War II minesweeper
People
- Robert DiPierdomenico (born 1958), Australian rules footballer and media personality nicknamed Dipper
- Alfred Dipper (1885–1945), English cricketer
- Slang for a pickpocket
- One who uses dipping tobacco
- An assistant for a patron of a bathing machine
Other uses
- Dipper (Chinese constellation)
- An old colloquial term for the New Democratic Party, a Canadian political party
- Dipper Pines, a character on the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls
See also
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