Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Crazy; insane.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Colic. See bot, etym.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of bat.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bat.
- adj. informal Mad, insane.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Crazy; insane; loony; demented; batty.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Etymologies
- From bats in the belfry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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
“Rabies is fairly rare in bats, and they're amazing and very useful animals.”
“He hit .344 with 12 homers in 195 at-bats from the cleanup spot.”
“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.”
“The Englehart incarnation of bats is one that is plausible to have a successor for.”
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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?).”
“His rate of one homer every 17.2 at-bats is tops on a power-hitting Rangers team.”
“The stuff about bats is VERY witty though. on August 7, 2008 at 4: 33 pm | Reply Rogerborg”
“A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats”
“His career slugging percentage in 1,332 at bats is .391.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bats’.
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Just Batty
vesper bat, vampire bat, fruit bat, baseball bat, Roy Batty, Townsend's big-ea..., Kitti's Hog-nosed..., giant golden-crow..., pipistrelle bat, Birdlike Noctule, stellaluna, Allen's Big-eared... and 174 more...
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Semordnilap
Semordnilap is a name coined for a word or phrase that spells a different word or phrase backwards. semordnilap is itself palindromes spelled backwards. According to author O.V. Michaelsen, it was ...
was, saw, god, dog, gateman, nametag, enoteca, acetone, deliver, reviled, straw, warts and 16 more...
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Rare Tongues
Lesser-known languages with really cool names.
aruá, borôro, hixkaryána, macushi, ninam, bit, bo, tenharim, xetá, qawasqar, chru, côông and 51 more...
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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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Sweet spirits of cats a-fighting
Moonshine words and some terms used for the D.T.'s.
white lightning, sugar whiskey, skull cracker, popskull, bush whiskey, stump, stumphole, 'splo, ruckus juice, rotgut, catdaddy, mule kick and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bats.
madmouth man, naizdraχ v fell would be a really unfair contest Jun 16, 2009
qroqqa 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" Jun 16, 2009
bilby 't's never over 'til Tsova-Tush. Jun 16, 2009
madmouth wouldncha rather have Tush? Jun 16, 2009
bilby Batsbiitsy, please! Jun 16, 2009
madmouth a language of Georgia Jun 16, 2009