On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 04:01:26PM +0000, Vicky Risk via RT wrote:
> I thought the G in DIG  stood for ‘grepper’ as in to use the grep utility.
> 
> Am I wrong?

Jeremy is correct; it is documented as "groper". The first version
of "dig" was written a long time ago, and while the word "grope" has taken
on some new connotations in US English in the decades since then, I believe
it was always intended in the dictionary sense of "feeling around blindly
in the dark".

I'm not particularly enthusiastic about revising history because what was
at the time a slang usage has become commonplace, but Jeremy isn't the
first person to complain about it, either.  Maybe we just don't need to
expand the abbreviation in the man page anymore.