overdraw the badger

English

Verb

overdraw the badger (third-person singular simple present overdraws the badger, present participle overdrawing the badger, simple past overdrew the badger, past participle overdrawn the badger)

1. (slang, obsolete, rare) To overdraw one's bank account.
   • 1852, John Swaby, Physiology of the Opera, page 74:

     […] we remember once hearing a fast man suggest that they were evidently "nobs who had overdrawn the badger by driving fast cattle, and going it high" — the exact signification of which words we did not understand […]