Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Mentally deranged; crazy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or resembling a bat; battish.
- noun Rice while growing.
- noun A measure for rice in India, equal to 120 pounds. McElrath, Com. Dict.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
- adjective colloq. Crazy; demented; loony; nuts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective slang
Mad ,crazy ,silly . - adjective obsolete Belonging to, or resembling, a
bat (mammal). - noun The
buttocks oranus . - noun Jamaica, UK, derogatory A
homosexual man.
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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One thing that always drives me batty is when the photos are so low resolution that they are worthless. jupiterthunder
Sell A House With Creative Photo Lighting | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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And then what drives me even more batty is when the room erupts in fervent applause, as if we are still living in the Cold War era, or as if they truly understand what socialized medicine would mean to them, and they are thoughtfully rejecting it for the principal of the free market.
Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority support universal health care. 2007
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There is more than one murder for Tori to cope with; but what drives her batty is the bulb on her porch keeps disappearing; her appointment book and a slide projector vanish.
Sew Deadly-Elizabeth Lynn Casey « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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In August of 1998, when North Korea tried to launch unsuccessfully a three-stage missile, it overflew Japan, and the Japanese population went absolutely batty, which is quite understandable.
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The misunderstandings continued as I bragged on and on about my "batty" family.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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The misunderstandings continued as I bragged on and on about my "batty" family.
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Exercising a scepticism toward Mylroie's "batty" theories lacking in much of the media coverage, one of the 9/11 widows lambasted Zelikow for this transparent "sales pitch for the Iraq war."
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Exercising a scepticism toward Mylroie's "batty" theories lacking in much of the media coverage, one of the 9/11 widows lambasted Zelikow for this transparent "sales pitch for the Iraq war."
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Exercising a scepticism toward Mylroie's "batty" theories lacking in much of the media coverage, one of the 9/11 widows lambasted Zelikow for this transparent "sales pitch for the Iraq war."
Printing: The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain's 9/11 Commission 2010
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The misunderstandings continued as I bragged on and on about my "batty" family.
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