Gator is a slang word for

alligator An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus ''Alligator'' of the Family (biology), family Alligatoridae in the Order (biology), order Crocodilia. The two Extant taxon, extant species are the American alligator (''A. mis ...

. Gator may also refer to:

People nicknamed Gator

* Mike Greenwell (born 1963), American former Major League Baseball player nicknamed "The Gator" *

Ron Guidry Ronald Ames Guidry (; born August 28, 1950), nicknamed "Louisiana Lightning" and "Gator", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Guidry was also the pitch ...

(born 1950), former Major League Baseball pitcher * Gator Hoskins (born 1991), American former football player *

Willis Jackson (saxophonist) Willis "Gator" Jackson (April 25, 1932 – October 25, 1987) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Biography Born in Miami, Florida, Jackson joined Cootie Williams's band in 1948 as a teenager, and was part of it on and off until 1955. Under hi ...

(1932-1987), American jazz saxophonist *

Mark Rogowski Mark Anthony "Gator" Rogowski (born August 10, 1966) is an American former professional skateboarder who was convicted of murder. He was mainly prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s. Rogowski's career ended when he pled guilty for assaulting, ...

(born 1966), professional skateboarder convicted for a 1991 murder

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

*Gator, a recurring character in ''Thomas & Friends'' *

Gabby Gator Gabby Gator is an animated cartoon character, an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic alligator who appeared in several cartoons produced by Walter Lantz and distributed by Universal Pictures. Gabby lives in old lair in the Okiedokie Swamp, which i ...

, an animated cartoon character, foe of Woody Woodpecker *Wally Gator, the titular character of "

Wally Gator ''Wally Gator'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that originally aired as one of the three segments from the syndicated block '' The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series''. The other two segments that ...

", one of the segments from ''The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Gator'' (film), a 1976 action movie starring and directed by Burt Reynolds *

Gator (game) Water games are games played in a body of water, such as a swimming pool, pond, lake, or river. ; Chicken fight :Two person teams: one team member sitting on the shoulders of his or her teammate or riding piggy-back. The object of the game is to k ...

, a swimming pool game *"Gator", an instrumental track on the 1989 single " Homely Girl" by UB40 *

KNGT KNGT (99.5 FM, "Gator 99.5") is an American radio station licensed to Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States, broadcasting a country music format. The station is currently owned by Townsquare Media. The station is home to Mike Soileau and Scott ...

, a radio station branded "Gator 99.5", licensed to Lake Charles, Louisiana

Military

* AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), a radar system in development by the United States Marine Corps *

Landing Vehicle Tracked The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT or AMTRAC) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and Amphibious vehicle, amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. (The USN and USMC use ''L'' to designate ...

used Amphibious warfare, popularly known as "gators" or "gator freighters" * Boeing T-43, informally known as the Gator, modified Boeing 737 airplanes used for training navigators * GATOR mine system, an American system of air-dropped anti-tank and anti-personnel mines developed in the 1980s

Sports

*Gator, a defensive technique in volleyball popularized by Danny Kinda - see

Volleyball jargon This is a list of the more common English volleyball jargon terms: Common terms *Ace: A serve which lands in the opponent's court without being touched, or is touched but unable to be kept in play by one or more receiving team players directl ...

*Gators, the athletics teams of St. Amant High School, Ascension Parish, Louisiana *Gators, the athletics teams of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, a private school in Bethesda, Maryland *Gators, the athletics teams of

Chapin School Chapin School is an single-sex education, all-girls independent day school on Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood in New York City. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" ...

, an all-girls day school in Manhattan, New York *Gators, the athletics teams of Donald A Wilson Secondary School, Whitby, Ontario, Canada *Gators, the athletics teams of

Lakeshore Catholic High School Lakeshore Catholic High School is a high school located in Port Colborne, just north of the eastern edge of Lake Erie, in Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Niagara Catholic District School Board, and competes with students from communities in Fo ...

, Port Colborne, Ontario *Gators, the athletics teams of

Crystal Lake South High School Crystal Lake South High School, often referred to as "South" or "CLS," is one of three high schools in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and currently has a body of roughly 1916 students. As Crystal Lake's second oldest school, it was constructed from 1976 ...

, Illinois *

Florida Gators The Florida Gators are the College sports in the United States, intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Florida, located in Gainesville, Florida, Gainesville. The University of Florida, its athletic program, its alumni an ...

, the University of Florida's athletic teams *

San Francisco State Gators The San Francisco State Gators are the athletic teams that compete at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California. The nickname applies to the college's intercollegiate NCAA Division II teams. The nickname was published in the stu ...

, the athletics teams of San Francisco State University *

Wuhan Gators The Wuhan Gators were a professional arena football team based in Wuhan, Hubei. They were members of the China Arena Football League (CAFL). They were originally called the Shenzhen Naja and were based in Shenzhen, Guangdong. They were named aft ...

, a professional arena football team based in Wuhan, China

Other uses

Claria Corporation Claria Corporation (formerly Gator Corporation) was a software company based in Redwood City, California that invented “Behavioral Marketing”, a new form of online advertising. It was founded in 1998 by Denis Coleman (co-founder of Symant ...

, formerly Gator Corporation, an Internet advertising company known for its ''Gator'' spyware *

John Deere Gator The John Deere Gator is a family of small all-terrain utility vehicles produced by the John Deere Corporation. Gators typically feature a box bed, similar in function to a pickup truck. The bed can also be installed as an electric dump body. Th ...

, a small utility vehicle *

Gator (facility) Gator is a low-background germanium counting facility for high-sensitivity gamma-ray spectrometry at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The Gator facility is primarily employed to quantify radioactivity levels for rare-event search ...

, a low-background counting facility at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy