noun pl. badgers -·ers or badger -·er

1. 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
2. the fur of a badger
3. Austral.
   1. wombat
   2. bandicoot
4. ☆ Informal a person born or living in Wisconsin, called the Badger State

Etymology: 16th-c. term for earlier brock < bageard < ? ME bage, badge + -ard, -ard, in allusion to white spot on face

transitive verb