merit badge

noun

1. an insignia or device granted by the Boy Scouts, worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.

Example Sentences

There is no merit badge yet for Dragon Boat racing, although there is one for canoeing.

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The MAP process has its own connotations in Georgian culture as a kind of merit badge of Western acceptance.

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“I made it and got my merit badge,” Spielberg later recalled.

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Back in 1958, an 11-year-old Steve Spielberg became a Boy Scout and needed to fulfill a requirement for a photography merit badge.

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Miss Mason said the other day you probably would earn a merit badge before the summer was past for cooking over a camp fire.

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Miss Mason had agreed that she might try for a Merit Badge as an artist during their camp.

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If ever you win a merit badge for automobiling, I'll eat it for breakfast.

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He had made a plunge for each merit badge, won it and, presto, his nervous mind was on another.

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"Yes, and I'll pin the merit badge over your mouth if you don't keep still," he heard a hearty voice say.

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