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14 Definitions of: bat

1. noun, any of various types of club with a handle, used to hit the ball in certain sports, such as cricket, baseball, or table tennis
2. noun, a flat round club with a short handle, resembling a table-tennis bat, used by a man on the ground to guide the pilot of an aircraft when taxiing
3. noun, cricket. short for batsman
4. noun, any stout stick, esp a wooden one
5. noun, a blow from such a stick
6. noun, a small board used for tossing the coins in the game of two-up
7. noun, slang a drinking spree; binge
8. noun, slang speed; rate; pace
9. noun, another word for batting
10. noun, carry one's bat cricket (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed
11. noun, off one's own bat a) of one's own accord; without being prompted by someone else b) by one's own unaided efforts
12. noun, (right) off the bat immediately; without hesitation
13. verb, to strike with or as if with a bat
14. verb, sport (of a player or a team) to take a turn at batting ▷ See also bat around
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1. noun, any placental mammal of the order Chiroptera, being a nocturnal mouselike animal flying with a pair of membranous wings (patagia). The group is divided into the Megachiroptera (fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats). Related adjective chiropteran
2. noun, slang an irritating or eccentric woman (esp in the phrase old bat)
3. noun, blind as a bat having extremely poor eyesight
4. noun, have bats in the (or one's) belfry to be mad or eccentric; have strange ideas
5. noun, like a bat out of hell slang very quickly
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1. verb, to wink or flutter (one's eyelids)
2. verb, not bat an eye or eyelid to show no surprise or concern
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