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noun
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.
verb (used with object)
4.
to furnish or mark with a badge.
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Badged
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English bag(g)e < ?
1300–50; Middle English bag(g)e < ?
Related forms
badge·less, adjective
un·badged, adjective
Synonyms
1. insignia, shield, seal; hallmark, earmark.
1. insignia, shield, seal; hallmark, earmark.
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badge
mid-14c., perhaps from Anglo-Fr. bage or from Anglo-L. bagis, pl. of bagia "emblem," all of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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