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adjective Slang.insane; crazy: He's gone bats. Origin of batsFirst recorded in 1915–20; see origin at bat2, -s3 Words nearby batsbatophobia, bat printing, batrachian, batrachotoxin, bat ray, bats, batshit, bats in one's belfry, have, bats-in-the-belfry, batsman, bats-wing coral-tree Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for batsImages of the hotel crop up repeatedly in his paintings, sometimes plagued by bats or monsters. ‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings|Melissa Leon|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST Also due to their unusual immune system, bats can remain healthy and able to travel even while infected. Bats’ Link to Ebola Finally Solved|Carrie Arnold|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Bats are crucial to the ecosystem, performing extremely valuable jobs like pollination and insect control. Bats’ Link to Ebola Finally Solved|Carrie Arnold|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Scientists increasingly began hunting for viruses in bats—and finding them. Bats’ Link to Ebola Finally Solved|Carrie Arnold|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
While the bats are infected, they shed large quantities of virus that can infect other animals. Bats’ Link to Ebola Finally Solved|Carrie Arnold|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST If bats flutter and beetles fly about, there will be fine weather. Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895|Various She was pursuing the huge butterflies with her apron, having taken them at first for bats. Social Life in the Insect World|J. H. Fabre Sheer up from the river's side they lifted their heads like old Venetian palaces abandoned to the bats. The Conquest|Eva Emery Dye I also wanted to make the acquaintance of the bats or flying foxes I had seen rising in clouds every evening at sunset. The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont|Louis de Rougemont Sometimes the partridges run between the ricks, and when the bats come out of the roof, leverets play in the waggon-track. The Pageant of Summer|Richard Jefferies
British Dictionary definitions for bats
adjectiveinformal crazy; very eccentric Word Origin for batsfrom bats-in-the-belfry (sense 2) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to batssock, blow, knock, thwack, bop, crack, wallop, smack, swat, bang, slam, rap, thump, strike, whack, belt, whop |