Definition of bandicoots:
(n) :
Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
(n) :
A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.
(v) :
(Australia, informal) To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.