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Bats (shortened from bats in the belfy) is slang for mad; demented.
A game performed in the open air by two teams of eleven players, employing two bats, a hard ball and a set of wickets
Bats in the belfry is slang for mad; demented.
Vrb phrs. 1. To be homosexual. E.g."He wont be interested in your sister, he bats for the other team." 2. To be of a different sexual persuasion.
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Left−handed batsman is British slang for a homosexual.
Boatswain (also Bosun or Bos'n)
Generally, in naval parlance a Boatswain is a non-commissioned officer responsible for the sails, ropes, rigging and boats. This term comes from the Old English batswegen, meaning the boat's swain, or husband. Today in the RCN the term "Boatswain" refers to the professional seaman trade.
Kilkenny cats is London Cockney rhyming slang for mad, insane (bats).
(KIN-dur bat) n., A person new to the Goth scene, a partial Goth. “I’m seeing a lot of new Kinder Bats at the Rocky Horror Picture Show.â€Â [Etym., 90’s youth, from German kinder, child; child-bat] see Goth
Noun. Miscellaneous items. Cf. 'bits and bobs'.
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Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.
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A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.
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Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
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A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip.
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Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.
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A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.
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of Batsman
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Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.
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To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
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Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.
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Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.
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Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.
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On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
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In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.
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A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.
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A tribe of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.
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Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
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Any species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma, native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.
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Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
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One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
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