Whether bleeding was natural or surgically induced, loss of blood was significant. This slang term has been in use since the 17th century, at which time bleeding was a common surgical practice. Thus, to badger came to mean ‘to worry, pester, or harass,’ and, more intensively, in the sense above, ‘to persecute or blackmail.’ The woman decoy in the badger game is called the badger-worker.īleed To extort money from an individual or an organization to pay an unreasonable amount of money to pay through the nose. The expression, in common use in the United States since the early 1900s, arose from the cruel sport of badger baiting, in which a live badger was placed in a hole or a barrel so that it could be easily attacked by dogs.

Badger game Extortion, blackmail, intimidation achieved through deception most specifically, the scheme in which a woman entices a man into a compromising situation, and then victimizes him by demanding money when her male accomplice, often pretending to be the enraged husband, arrives on the scene, threatening violence or scandal.

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