Definitions for Bat

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IPA: /bæt/

Bat is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in Bat (abt).

Definitions for Bat

noun

1. Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. 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, especially the pace of the stroke or step of a race.
7. Slang. a spree; binge:
8. Ceramics. a sheet of gelatin or glue used in bat printing. a slab of moist clay. a ledge or shelf in a kiln. a slab of plaster for holding a piece being modeled or for absorbing excess water from slip.
9. batt.
10. any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, of worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions, having modified forelimbs that serve as wings and are covered with a membranous skin extending to the hind limbs.
11. a sheet of matted cotton, wool, or synthetic fibers.
12. William Barclay ("Bat") 1853–1921, U.S. frontier law officer.

Idioms

1. at bat, Baseball. taking one's turn to bat in a game: 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:
2. bat the breeze. breeze1 (def 11).
3. go to bat for, Informal. to intercede for; vouch for; defend:
4. right off the bat, Informal. at once; without delay:
5. blind as a bat, nearly or completely blind; having very poor vision:
6. have bats in one's belfry, Informal. to have crazy ideas; be very peculiar, erratic, or foolish:
7. not bat an eye, to show no emotion or surprise; maintain a calm exterior:

Verb phrases

1. bat around, Slang. to roam; drift. Informal. to discuss or ponder; debate: Baseball. to have every player in the lineup take a turn at bat during a single inning.
2. bat in, Baseball. to cause (a run) to be scored by getting a hit:
3. bat out, to do, write, produce, etc., hurriedly:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or hit with or as if with a bat or club.
2. Baseball. to have a batting average of; hit:
3. to blink; wink; flutter.

verb (used without object)

1. Sports. to strike at the ball with the bat. to take one's turn as a batter.
2. Slang. to rush.

Origin of Bat

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English bat, bot, batte, Old English batt, perhaps Celtic; compare Irish, Scots Gaelic bat, bata staff, cudgel; (v.) Middle English batten, partly from the noun, part

Examples for Bat

A bat circled near, indecisively, as if with a message it hesitated to give.

It can be really good if somebody is an amazing talent right off the bat or it can highlight your flaws.

I've got such an awful lot of stuff that I want to dictate it right off the bat.

Instead, he gives his very best effort and tries to win the World Series with a single swing of his bat.

Right off the bat, papyrologist Brice C. Jones noted that something was awry.

Run out the mile-an'-a-quarter, make a race of it, but don't go to the bat.

Right off the bat, the “Doing Our Bit for the Cure” campaign seemed peculiar.

So the man done it, and sure enough he was as blind as a bat in a minute.

This allows the bats to spread the viruses to other bat populations in distant areas.

You can no more be told how to go light than you can be told how to hit a ball with a bat.