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Bat

noun

Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. Synonym: chiropteran.

(baseball) a turn trying to get a hit. Synonym: at-bat. "He got four hits in four at-bats"

A small racket with a long handle used for playing squash. Synonyms: squash racket, squash racquet.

The club used in playing cricket. Synonym: cricket bat.

A club used for hitting a ball in various games.

verb

(past & past part. batted; pres. part. batting)

Strike with, or as if with a baseball bat.

Wink briefly. Synonym: flutter.

Have a turn at bat.

Use a bat.

Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight. Synonyms: clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash.

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"Bat" Quotes from Famous Books

... wiping away the really starting tears with her white lace cloak. "I told you the elegant Constantine was the lord of my heart; and you have seduced him from me! Till you came, he was so respectful, so tender, so devoted! Bat I am rightly used! I ought to have carried my ...

— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

... come the road-kids, sporting an infinite variety of monicas. For example, the following, whom here and there I have encountered: Buck Kid, Blind Kid, Midget Kid, Holy Kid, Bat Kid, Swift Kid, Cookey Kid, Monkey Kid, Iowa Kid, Corduroy Kid, Orator Kid (who could tell how it happened), and Lippy Kid (who was insolent, ...

— The Road • Jack London

... has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... George Washington, vol. 1, p. 140, New York, 1949. Washington had written his brother John on June 14 and given his opinion that they should "retrench the wagons and increase the number of bat horses."] ...

— Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 • Don H. Berkebile

... as blind as a bat!' commented Elizabeth. 'Can't you see she's doin' that to 'ide 'er feelings—so that you'll never guess 'ow 'er 'eart is ...

— Our Elizabeth - A Humour Novel • Florence A. Kilpatrick

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