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Badger n. : 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.

Badger n. : A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

Badger n. : A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.

Badger v. t. : To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

Badger v. t. : To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

Example:
What is the tip size on a Badger 155 anthem airbrush?

Taxonomy
badger, meat, 04-25, Subfamily, Family, honey badger, Large family, The Badger, Meles, Diet, setts, food, characters, Coyote, Europe, Subfamily Melinae, Taxidea taxus, free encyclopedia.

Defination from the web:
badger to maintain its hold with the utmost tenacity, but limits its jaw movement to hingeing open and shut, or sliding from ... The word badger originally applied to the European Badger (Meles meles), but its derivation is uncertain. ... 

synonyms
  (noun) Wisconsinite
  (noun) Badger
  (noun) American
  (noun) mustelid
  (noun) musteline
  (noun) musteline mammal
  (verb) tease
  (verb) pester
  (verb) bug
  (verb) beleaguer
  (verb) bedevil
  (verb) crucify
  (verb) dun
  (verb) frustrate
  (verb) persuade
  (verb) rag
  (verb) torment


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