Definition of "badger" in English

noun

1. Any mammal belonging to the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora and Taxidea.

2. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.

3. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.

4. (in the plural, obsolete, cant) A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

5. (slang, cricket) A person who is very fond of cricket.

verb

1. (transitive) To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.

   • He kept badgering her about her bad habits.

noun

1. (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.