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bat

1  [bat] noun, verb, bat⋅ted, bat⋅ting.
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–noun
1. Sports.
a. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball.
b. a racket, esp. one used in badminton or table tennis.
c. a whip used by a jockey.
d. the act of using a club or racket in a game.
e. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
2. a heavy stick, club, or cudgel.
3. Informal. a blow, as with a bat.
4. any fragment of brick or hardened clay.
5. Masonry. a brick cut transversely so as to leave one end whole.
6. British Slang. speed; rate of motion or progress, esp. the pace of the stroke or step of a race.
7. Slang. a spree; binge: to go on a bat.
8. Ceramics.
a. a sheet of gelatin or glue used in bat printing.
b. a slab of moist clay.
c. a ledge or shelf in a kiln.
d. a slab of plaster for holding a piece being modeled or for absorbing excess water from slip.
9. batt.
–verb (used with object)
10. to strike or hit with or as if with a bat or club.
11. Baseball. to have a batting average of; hit: He batted .325 in spring training.
–verb (used without object)
12. Sports.
a. to strike at the ball with the bat.
b. to take one's turn as a batter.
13. Slang. to rush.
—Verb phrases
14. bat around,
a. Slang. to roam; drift.
b. Informal. to discuss or ponder; debate: We batted the idea around.
c. Baseball. to have every player in the lineup take a turn at bat during a single inning.
15. bat in, Baseball. to cause (a run) to be scored by getting a hit: He batted in two runs with a double to left.
16. bat out, to do, write, produce, etc., hurriedly: I have to bat out a term paper before class.
—Idioms
17. at bat, Baseball.
a. taking one's turn to bat in a game: at bat with two men in scoring position.
b. an instance at bat officially charged to a batter except when the batter is hit by a pitch, receives a base on balls, is interfered with by the catcher, or makes a sacrifice hit or sacrifice fly: two hits in three at bats.
18. bat the breeze. breeze 1 (def. 11).
19. go to bat for, Informal. to intercede for; vouch for; defend: to go to bat for a friend.
20. right off the bat, Informal. at once; without delay: They asked me to sing right off the bat.
Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME bat, bot, batte, OE batt, perh. < Celt; cf. Ir, ScotGael bat, bata staff, cudgel; (v.) ME batten, partly from the n., partly < OF batre; see batter 1

Synonyms:
10. knock, wallop, swat, smack, sock, slug; clout, clobber.
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Slang Dictionary
bat

  1. n.
    a drinking bout. : She was on a bat that lasted over a week.
  2. n.
    a drunkard; a person on a drinking spree. : A tired old bat—still waving a bottle—met me on the stairs.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bat  (v.)
"to move the eyelids," 1847, Amer.Eng., from earlier sense of "flutter as a hawk" (1615), a variant of bate (2) on the notion of fluttering wings.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: bat
Pronunciation: 'bat
Function: noun
: any of an order (Chiroptera) of nocturnal placental flying mammals with forelimbs modified to form wings
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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