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wom⋅bat

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–noun
any of several stocky, burrowing, herbivorous marsupials of the family Vombatidae, of Australia, about the size of a badger.
Origin:
1790–1800; < Dharuk wom-bat
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wom·bat   (wŏm'bāt')   
n.  Any of several stocky burrowing Australian marsupials of the family Vombatidae, somewhat resembling a small bear and feeding mainly on grass, leaves, and roots.

[Dharuk wambad.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
wombat [ˈwɑmbæt]

  1. n.
    a strange person; a geek. (Collegiate.) : Who's the wombat in the 1957 Chevy?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

wombat 
marsupial mammal of Australia, 1798, from aboriginal Australian womback, wombar.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

WOMBAT
Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time.
Problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as "wrestling with a wombat".
See also crawling horror, SMOP.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)

wombat
1. A metasyntactic variable in Commonwealth Hackish.
2. wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)

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