Usually means: Award for achieving specific skills.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. merit badge: Vocabulary.com
  2. merit badge: Wiktionary
  3. merit badge: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. merit badge: Dictionary.com
  5. Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America), Merit badge (disambiguation), Merit badge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. merit badge: Rhymezone
  7. merit badge: FreeDictionary.org
  8. merit badge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. merit badge: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. merit badge: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See merit_badges as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (merit badge)

noun:  (originally and chiefly US, scouting) An embroidered cloth patch awarded to a youth member of the Boy Scouts of America or other scouting organization who successfully completes an activity within an area of study (the badge bearing an image representing the activity), which is either sewn on to the sleeve of the scout's uniform or a sash worn with the uniform; hence, the award itself.

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