Badgers (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Badgers

A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered. Cant.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

See also the definition in Nathan Bailey's 1736 dictionary of canting and thieving slang.

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