overdraw the badger en · VERB
Meanings
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(obsolete, rare, slang) To 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overdrew the badger | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overdraws the badger | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| overdrawn the badger | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overdrawing the badger | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |