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Badger

1. Noun.  A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.
2. Noun.  A common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
3. Noun.  A native or resident of the American State of Wisconsin.
4. Noun.  (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
5. Noun.  (plural, obsolete) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
6. Verb.  To pester, to annoy persistently.
7. Verb.  (British, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
8. Noun.  (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.