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Noun:
- 1811 A low whore: so called from moving out like a bat in the dusk of the evening.
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- Any of the small, nocturnal, flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, which navigate by means of echolocation. They look like a mouse with membranous wings extending from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail. Altogether, there are about 1,000 bat species in the world.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- offensive An old woman.
- two-up: The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language'', second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 242.)
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Verb:
- intransitive to strike or swipe as though with a bat
- intransitive to take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- transitive to flutter: ''bat one's eyelashes''.
- transitive to hit with a bat.
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