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bat⋅man

  [bat-muhn]
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–noun, plural -men. (in the British army)
a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.
Origin:
1745–55; short for bat-horse man, equiv. to bat < F bât packsaddle (< VL *bastum, n. deriv. of *bastāre to carry < LGk *bastân, re-formation of Gk bastázein to lift, carry) + horse + man 1
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bat·man   (bāt'mən)   
n.  A British military officer's orderly.

[Obsolete bat, packsaddle (from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum) + man.]
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Batman

Bat"man\, n. [Turk. batman.] 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. --Simmonds.

Batman

Bat"man\, n.; pl. Batmen. [F. b[^a]t packsaddle + E. man. Cf. Bathorse.] A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. --Macaulay.
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Batman

A comic strip character that first appeared in 1939. With his faithful sidekick Robin (the Boy Wonder), Batman fights crime in Gotham City, foiling evil villains such as the Joker and the Riddler.

Note: Batman's adventures have been widely adapted for television and a number of motion pictures.
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