badger

IPA: bˈædʒɝ

Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
(obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
(in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
(obsolete) 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.
A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.
A village in Shropshire, England.
A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
A habitational surname from Old English.
A child member of the St John Ambulance medical volunteering organisation.

Examples of "badger" in Sentences

He'll produce a badger from a sack, and he'll proceed to stuff the badger down his pants.
(among the Indians a coward is often called a badger) he hissed; and he struck the suppliant down before him.
States, for the animal there sometimes called a badger is the ground-hog, or Maryland marmot (_Arctomys monax_).
There's plenty to choose from with Vietnam being top of his list but he stops short of anything too radical and releases a badger from the local zoo instead.
_European badger and Glutton_; and in the south, the _Indian badger_; while in the Himalaya chain dwells another animal, closely allied to the badgers, called the _Wha_ or _Panda_.
With the political integrity, which has become this governments ‘leit motif’, Darling responded belatedly to outrage of our brave lads and lasses were living in badger sets He promised of £80 million of brand new shiny unaccounted-for money.
I often come down this lane at night, slowly, in case a badger is scurrying into the bank or a hare making off for the open fields, and in the early autumn the steep perspective here gives the full moon the look of an enormous poacher's lantern hanging up in the trees.