overdraw the badger

verb

To overdraw one's bank account.

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Meanings

verboverdraw the badger (third-person singular simple present overdraws the badger, present participle overdrawing the badger, simple past overdrew the badger, past participle overdrawn the badger)

present singular third person overdraws the badger · participle present overdrawing the badger · past overdrew the badger · participle past overdrawn the badger

  1. obsoleterareslangTo overdraw one's bank account.

    […] we remember once hearing a fast man suggest that they were evidently "nobs who had overdrawn the badger by driving fast cattle, and going it high" — the exact signification of which words we did not understand […]

    1852, John Swaby, Physiology of the Opera, page 74
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