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noun a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
originThe place name is from Old English Badimyncgtun (“estate of (a man called) Baduhelm”), from the personal name *Bad (possibly also found in Frankish Badon) + helm + -ing + -tun.
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