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badger game
–noun
| an extortion scheme in which a woman places a man in a compromising position and then victimizes him by demanding money when her male accomplice, pretending to be an outraged husband or relative, enters and threatens violence, scandal, etc. |
Origin:
1895–1900
1895–1900
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Badger game
Badg"er game\ The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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badger game
An extortion scheme in which a man is lured into a compromising position, usually by a woman, and then is "discovered" and blackmailed by her associate. For example, The prosecutor accused the couple of playing the badger game. The term alludes to the much older sport of badger-baiting, in which a live badger was trapped and put inside a box and dogs were set on it to drag it out. The woman in the scheme is the "badger." [Late 1800s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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