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ALL meanings of badger

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  • countable noun badger A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night. 3
  • verb badger If you badger someone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions. 3
  • noun badger any of various stocky omnivorous musteline mammals of the subfamily Melinae, such as Meles meles (Eurasian badger), occurring in Europe, Asia, and North America: order Carnivora (carnivores). They are typically large burrowing animals, with strong claws and a thick coat striped black and white on the head 3
  • verb badger to pester or harass 3
  • noun badger any of certain mammals of a family (Mustelidae) of burrowing carnivores (esp. genera Taxidea and Meles) of North America, Europe, and Asia, with a broad back, thick, short legs, and long claws on the forefeet 3
  • noun badger the fur of a badger 3
  • noun badger wombat 3
  • abbreviation BADGER bandicoot 3
  • noun badger a person born or living in Wisconsin, called the Badger State 3
  • verb transitive badger to torment as if baiting a badger; nag 3
  • noun badger burrowing animal 1
  • transitive verb badger pester 1
  • verbal expression badger pester to do sth 1
  • noun badger any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia. 1
  • noun badger the fur of this mammal. 1
  • noun badger Australian. a wombat. bandicoot (def 2). 1
  • noun badger Ask (someone) repeatedly and annoyingly for something; pester. 1
  • noun badger (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of Wisconsin (the Badger State) (used as a nickname). 1
  • noun badger a swablike device for cleaning excess mortar from the interiors of newly laid tile drains. 1
  • verb with object badger to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag: I had to badger him into coming with us. 1
  • noun badger A common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger). 0
  • noun badger A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin. 0
  • noun badger (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A brush made of badger hair. 0
  • noun badger (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered. 0
  • noun badger (Obsolete (No longer in use)) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. 0
  • verb badger to pester, to annoy persistently. 0
  • verb badger (Informal) (Britain) To pass gas; to fart. 0
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