Bats
//bæts// adj, name, noun, verb, slang
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 plural of bat form-of, plural
Verb
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of bat form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Adjective
- 1 Mad, insane. informal
"You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on."
Adjective
- 1 informal or slang terms for mentally irregular wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh family, spoken in Georgia.
- 2 A commune in Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
- 3 A nickname for Batman.
"The Dark Knight Returns, published in four installments in 1986, is an extremely grim vision of a near-future Batman in a crime-ridden Gotham (reminiscent of Death Wish–era New York) that went to seed after Bats hung up the cape and cowl years prior."
Example
More examples"No wonder we associate bats with dark places."
Etymology
From Bat(man) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
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