Definitions of bat
British English : bat When you bat, you have a turn at hitting the ball with a bat in baseball, softball, cricket, or rounders. VERBThe team, put in to bat, made a cautious start.
noun
- any of various types of club with a handle, used to hit the ball in certain sports, such as cricket, baseball, or table tennis
- a flat round club with a short handle, resembling a table-tennis bat, used by a man on the ground to guide the pilot of an aircraft when taxiing
- (cricket ) short for batsman
- any stout stick, esp a wooden one
- (informal ) a blow from such a stick
- (Australian ) a small board used for tossing the coins in the game of two-up
- (US & Canadian , slang ) a drinking spree; binge
- (slang ) speed; rate; pace ⇒ they went at a fair bat
- another word for batting (sense 1)
- See carry one's bat
- See off one's own bat
- See off the bat
verb
- (transitive) to strike with or as if with a bat
- (intransitive) (sport ) (of a player or a team) to take a turn at batting
noun
- any placental mammal of the order Chiroptera, being a nocturnal mouselike animal flying with a pair of membranous wings (patagia). The group is divided into the Megachiroptera (fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats) related adjective chiropteran
- (slang ) an irritating or eccentric woman (esp in the phrase old bat)
- See blind as a bat
- See have bats in the belfry
- See like a bat out of hell
verb
- to wink or flutter (one's eyelids)
- See not bat an eye