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[bæt]

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

short for batsman

any stout stick, esp a wooden one

a blow from such a stick

a small board used for tossing the coins in the game of two-up

a drinking spree; binge

speed; rate; pace

they went at a fair bat

another word for batting

to strike with or as if with a bat

(of a player or a team) to take a turn at batting

See bat around

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[bæt]

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)

an irritating or eccentric woman (esp in the phrase old bat)

bat

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to wink or flutter (one's eyelids)

习惯用语: carry one's bat (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed; off one's own bat of one's own accord; without being prompted by someone else.by one's own unaided efforts; off the bat immediately; without hesitation; right off the bat 同

习惯用语: blind as a bat having extremely poor eyesight; have bats in the belfry to be mad or eccentric; have strange ideas; have bats in one's belfry 同; like a bat out of hell very quickly