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badgers

badgers is the plural of badger.

badgers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of badger.

Meaning of badger

Noun (1)

badger (plural badgers)

  1. Any member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals.
  2. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
    Synonyms:
    brock, Wisconsinite
  3. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
  4. (in plural, obsolete, cant) A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
  5. (slang) A person who is very fond of cricket.

Noun (2)

badger (plural badgers)

  1. (obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker or huckster; especially one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

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Noun capitalized: Badgers

Badgers

  1. (plural) plural of Badger

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Words that rhyme with badgers

Questions about badgers

What is badgers the plural of?
Badgers is the plural of badger.
What part of speech is badgers?
Badgers is a noun.

Words near badgers in the dictionary

  1. badgering
  2. badgeringly
  3. badgerings
  4. badgerlike
  5. badgerly
  6. badgers
  7. badgersona
  8. badgersonas
  9. Badgerys Creek
  10. badges
  11. badges in

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