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| badger | |
| 1. n. Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and (American badger). |  |
| 2. n. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair. | |
| 4. n. (in the obsolete, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered. | |
| 5. v. To pester, to annoy persistently. | |
| He kept badgering her about her bad habits. | |
| 6. v. (UK, informal) To pass gas; to fart. | |
| 7. n. (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. | |
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