badgers

noun pl. badgers or badger

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

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