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badminton definition

bad·min·ton (bad′mint′'n; often, -mit′'n)

noun

a game in which a shuttlecock is batted back and forth with light rackets across a net by opposing players or pairs of players

Etymology: after Badminton, estate of the Duke of Beaufort

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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