Urchin

Urchin or urcheon is the Middle English term for "hedgehog". It may refer to:

Common meanings

• Street children, homeless children
• Sea urchins, spiny sea creatures

Arts and entertainment

• Urchin (band), a band led by Dave Murray and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden
• Urchin (album), a 1998 album by Inga Liljeström
• Urchin (film), a 2007 film about a homeless boy living underground, by John Harlacher
• Urchin, the squirrel protagonist in The Mistmantle Chronicles book series
• Urchin, an enemy in the 1990 video game Super Mario World
• Urchin (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of monster in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

Other uses

• HMS Urchin, five ships of the British Royal Navy
• Urchin Software Corporation, a US web analytics company owned by Google
  • Urchin (software), a series of web analytics developed by the Urchin Software Corporation (now Google Analytics)
• Urchin (detonator), code name for the device that triggered the detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs
• The Urchins, English hooligan firm associated with Liverpool F.C.
• Urchin Rock, off the coast of Graham Land, Antarctica

See also

• Sea Urchin (disambiguation)