[baj] 
noun, verb, badged, badg⋅ing.| 1. | a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc.: a police badge; a merit badge. |
| 2. | any emblem, token, or distinctive mark: He considered a slide rule as the badge of an engineering student. |
| 3. | a card bearing identifying information, as one's name, symbol or place of employment, or academic affiliation, and often worn pinned to one's clothing. |
| 4. | to furnish or mark with a badge. |
| badge (bāj) n.
[Middle English bagge, from Norman French bage.] badge v. |