Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A British military officer's orderly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person allowed by the government to every company of a regiment on foreign service.
- noun A Turkish weight varying in amount in different localities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
- noun A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
unit ofweight used in the East. - noun military A
servant orvalet to an armyofficer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The Green Hornet Trailer Puulaahi batman is worried about the franchise - November 10, 2009 added by tiki god | Images mcs+ to rate
batman is worried about the franchise | My[confined]Space 2009
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The Green Hornet Trailer Puulaahi batman is gritty - November 10, 2009 added by tiki god | Images mcs+ to rate
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My only problem with batman is that it's a great ride but you can never play it again.
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I want to talk about the new batman 3 villains. why riddler? why Harley Quinn? you can only put harley Quinn in batman 3 unless you bring the joker back in!!!!!
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The real fans will get to watch this movie, enjoying the fact that Miller is the guy who brought back batman from the dead (The Dark Knight Returns-graphic novel) and whose works also inspired the real BATMAN MOVIE (circa 1989)!
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Thus the batman is redeemed, the city is allowed to save itself (which is what the league of shadows wanted, yet batman is vindicated in achieveing the same goal without killing), and batman becomes something more than one man, a symbol and a legend, forever watching over gotham.
Contest: Where Could The Dark Knight Go Next? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Christian Bale: Solid as ever … this guy cant put a wrong foot down … he as batman is everything batman should be, brooding, honest, powerful conflicted heroic, tragic … everyone of those emotions and more are portrayed with the greatest justice …
Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I think that the next batman should be like the the dark knight comics were batman is old and has guns.
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Catwoman needs to be redeemed after catwoman movie and they aren't taking the stories from any certain batman book its a combination of books.
Contest: Where Could The Dark Knight Go Next? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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May 28th, 2008 2: 13 pm ET crap calling crap, crap. lol what a bunch of jokers. they make the joker in batman look like a genius.
bilby commented on the word batman
"There was a daughter called Joan but she turned out badly too, started a child and went away, God knows where, and now he had no one to look after him but an old soldier called Faxy, a tall, stringy, ravaged-looking man, toothless and half mad Faxy had attached himself to Tom years before as a batman."
- Frank O'Connor, 'The Miser'.
September 6, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word batman
The name of a town in Turkey.
August 21, 2009
seanahan commented on the word batman
A very litigious town.
August 21, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word batman
"Banks will not advance money", in the shorthand code used by railroad telegraphers. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. See bathtub.
January 20, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word batman
"Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, most commonly in association with the superhero Batman.
"Pennyworth is depicted as Bruce Wayne's loyal and tireless butler, housekeeper, legal guardian, best friend, aide-de-camp, and surrogate father figure following the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne. As a classically trained British actor and an ex-Special Operations Executive operative of honor and ethics with connections within the intelligence community, he has been called "Batman's batman"."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Pennyworth&oldid=854935165
August 16, 2018