Definition of "bandicoot" in English

noun

1. Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.

2. A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.

verb

1. (Australia, informal) To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.