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Batwing

noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    formed or shaped like a bat's wing wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The wing of a bat, or its shape.

    "The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brown batwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky."

  2. 2
    one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) wordnet
  3. 3
    Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura.
  4. 4
    An area of flabby fat under a person's arms. slang
  5. 5
    A long sleeve with a deep armhole, tapering toward the wrist.
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  1. 6
    One of a pair of swinging doors which typically do not lock nor cover the full vertical range of the doorway (leaving a large gap at the top and bottom), common especially in saloons.

    "The cantina was a flatroofed adobe, painfully white in the unrelenting sun, with a brush roof and splintery batwings. The doors swung back and forth as a man stepped before them and stood beneath the brush arbor, staring at Navarro,[…]"

  2. 7
    A heart-shaped rollercoaster feature with two inversions.
  3. 8
    An exercise or posture on the stomach wherein a dumbbell row or lateral raise is performed. attributive, often

Etymology

From bat + wing.

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