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Bats

adjective

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky.

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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"Bats" Quotes from Famous Books

... boy be removed from her school—all this according to the earnest biographer. The facts are that the boy had so much energy and restless ambition; was so full of brimming curiosity, mischief and imagination—introducing turtles, bats and mice on various occasions—that he led the whole school a merry chase and wore the nerves of the ancient maiden ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... them. They know that bats and dormice and other things sleep all the winter; so why should not swallows sleep? They see the swallows about the water, and often dipping almost into it. They know that fishes live under water, and that many insects—like May-flies ...

— Madam How and Lady Why - or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children • Charles Kingsley

... ready on time, for a local tailor had agreed to make as many as were needed of various sizes, and to have them done with a rush. Already Mr. Leonard, being furnished with ample funds, had ordered bats and balls, bases, and all manner of necessary adjuncts that go with a well-organized baseball team. Meanwhile, they must make a virtue of necessity, and do the best they could with the stock ...

— The Chums of Scranton High - Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight • Donald Ferguson

... through this performance, and I am told found "plenty plenty" bats, and hedgehogs, and snakes. They could not tell me his name, which I much regretted. As we had no store of bush lights we went no further than the portals; indeed, strictly between ourselves, if I had ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... heard the cropping of the goats, the jaws' champ when they chewed the crisp leaves; the flicker of the bats' wings. In the marsh, half a mile away, the chorus of frogs, when it swelled up, drowned all nearer noise; but when it broke off suddenly, those others resumed their hold upon the stillness. It was a breathless night of suspense. Anything might ...

— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

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