From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Badminton \Bad"min*ton\, noun [From the name of the seat of the Duke of Beaufort in England.]
1. A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
2. A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
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