Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Mentally deranged; crazy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Colic. See
bot , etym.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Crazy; insane; loony; demented; batty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
bat . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bat . - adjective informal
Mad ,insane .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That way they know the streets will in the none to distance future, be safe for them and their loved ones, and they can go back to throwing brick bats from the side lines about nasty right wing authoritarin Police Forces, schools, courts, and Prisons.
Take A Deep Breath….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The Englehart incarnation of bats is one that is plausible to have a successor for.
Review: Captain America - Reborn #4 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Field wondered if the SARS virus might also be circulating in bats, and that eventually gave rise to the expedition led by Epstein, and the four that followed.
Disease-Hunting Scientists: Jonathan Epstein and the search for SARS ewillett 2009
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Rabies is fairly rare in bats, and they're amazing and very useful animals.
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I've heard cricket players say the same thing about using a glove to catch a ball (the business side of their bats is pretty flat, though, so what do they know?).
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He hit .344 with 12 homers in 195 at-bats from the cleanup spot.
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The stuff about bats is VERY witty though. on August 7, 2008 at 4: 33 pm | Reply Rogerborg
What will the Magistrates do? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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His rate of one homer every 17.2 at-bats is tops on a power-hitting Rangers team.
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A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats
August 13th, 2007 2007
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His career slugging percentage in 1,332 at bats is .391.
madmouth commented on the word bats
a language of Georgia
June 16, 2009
bilby commented on the word bats
Batsbiitsy, please!
June 16, 2009
madmouth commented on the word bats
wouldncha rather have Tush?
June 16, 2009
bilby commented on the word bats
't's never over 'til Tsova-Tush.
June 16, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word bats
Batsbi is often encountered in the typological literature because of its interesting system of active marking, where the subject can be absolutive or ergative depending on whether the action is accidental or intentional:
tχo naizdraχ qitra "(ABS.)we (accidentally) fell to the ground"
atχo naizdraχ qitra "ERG.we (intentionally) fell to the ground"
June 16, 2009
madmouth commented on the word bats
man, naizdraχ v fell would be a really unfair contest
June 16, 2009