bats

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adjectiveSlang.
  1. insane; crazy: He's gone bats.

Origin of bats

1
First recorded in 1915–20; see origin at bat2, -s3

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British Dictionary definitions for bats

bats

/ (bæts) /


adjective
  1. informal crazy; very eccentric

Origin of bats

1
from bats-in-the-belfry (sense 2)

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