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crate-digger

crate-digger is the alternative form of cratedigger.

Meaning of cratedigger

Noun

cratedigger (plural cratediggers)

  1. (slang) A person who habitually looks through crates of vinyl records at music shops, especially in pursuit of interesting or rare records.
    • Serious vinyl collectors will have a minor epiphany at Car City Classics[…], where notorious crate-diggers like the UK's Kirk Degiorgio (a.k.a. As One) have been known to close the store.1998 April, Scott Sterling, “Localzine: Detroit, Michigan”, in Scott Frampton, editor, CMJ New Music Monthly, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77
    Synonyms:
    digger

Forms of crate-digger

pluralcrate-diggers

Questions about crate-digger

What is crate-digger the alternative form of?
Crate-digger is the alternative form of cratedigger.

Words near crate-digger in the dictionary

  1. crate motor
  2. crate motors
  3. crate myrtle
  4. crate shy of a load
  5. crate-dig
  6. crate-digger
  7. crate-diggers
  8. crate-digging
  9. crate-digs
  10. crate-dug
  11. crated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crate-digger (page history and authors); cratedigger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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