Definition of "bandicoot"

Any of various small Australian marsupials with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae (with the exception of genus Macrotis, called bilbies).  examples

Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.  examples

(Australia, informal) To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.  examples