BAT
- Acronym. best available technology; a principle applying to regulations on limiting pollutant discharges.
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. (context, offensive) An old woman.
- Noun. (1811) A low whore: so called from moving out like a bat in the dusk of the evening.
- Noun. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- Noun. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- Noun. (two-up, lang en) : 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.).
- Verb. (transitive) to hit with a bat.
- Verb. (intransitive) to take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- Verb. (intransitive) to strike or swipe as though with a bat.
- Verb. (transitive) to flutter: ''bat one's eyelashes''.
- Noun. (obsolete) packsaddle.
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