bandicoot

Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.

At the rustle of a bandicoot we noticed the upraised gleam of eyes around the fires.

A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.

To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.

‘Well, the abos ‘bandicooted’ his peanuts.’