bat

bat

1. dated slang An indulgence of wild or celebratory activity; a spree or binge. Primarily heard in US. Me and my pals were on a bat in the Big Apple, see, when Tommy the Toon gets picked up by the fuzz. What a predicament!
2. slang A speed or rate of motion. We were driving at a fair bat when we hit a patch of ice and spun out on the road. He came running toward us at full bat.
3. slang A foolish, irritating, or eccentric old person, usually a woman. Used especially in the phrase "old bat." Ugh, what is that old bat complaining about today?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bat

1. n. a drinking bout. She was on a bat that lasted over a week.
2. n. a drunkard; a person on a drinking spree. A tired old bat—still waving a bottle—met me on the stairs.

bats

1. and batty mod. crazy. You are driving me batty! You are bats if you think I would ever wear a haircut like that.
2. and batty mod. alcohol intoxicated; confused and drunk. The guy was bats—stewed to his ears. He was a bit batty, but he’d been drinking since noon, so no one was surprised.
3. and the bats n. the delirium tremens. (Always with the.) My buddy is shaking because of a slight case of the bats.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) blind as a bat
  • a nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat
  • an old bat
  • as blind as a bat
  • at bat
  • bat
  • bat (one's) eyelashes
  • bat (one's) eyes
  • bat a thousand
  • bat an eye
  • bat an eyelash
  • bat an eyelid
  • bat around
  • bat away
  • bat five hundred
  • bat for both sides
  • bat for both teams
  • bat for the other side
  • bat for the other team
  • bat in (one or more runs)
  • bat one thousand
  • bat out
  • bat the breeze
  • bat your eyelashes/eyes
  • batted
  • batted out
  • be (as) blind as a bat
  • blind as a bat
  • blind as a bat/beetle/mole
  • carry (one's) bat
  • carry your bat
  • go to bat against
  • go to bat for
  • go to bat for (one)
  • go to bat for somebody
  • go to bat for someone
  • like a bat out of hell
  • not bat an eye
  • not bat an eyelash
  • not bat an eyelid
  • off (one's) own bat
  • off the bat
  • off your own bat
  • old bat
  • play a straight bat
  • right off the bat
  • shoot the breeze
  • sticky wicket, (to bat on) a
  • straight off the bat
  • up to bat
  • without batting an eye
References in periodicals archive
The fact is that bats are endangered globally and that is why all European bat species are protected by both European directives and conventions and national laws.
Rehabilitating the misunderstood bat
Tallahassee, FL - August 6, 2019 - To protect Tallahassee homes and local bat species, the wildlife removal experts at Critter Control(c) of Tallahassee warn residents to comply with regulations during bat maternity season.
Critter Control© of Tallahassee Reminds Residents to Prepare for Bat Maternity Season
Several passengers managed to capture video of the bat flying around the cabin, which quickly appeared online.
Spirit Airline Flight Surprise By Bat Seen Flying Around Cabin Mid-Flight
A gray bat was found dead in a crevice in a bridge in Fulton County on May 1, 2014 but was discarded without necropsy.
Gray Bat Day Roosts in Concrete Barriers on Bridges during Migration
Phnom Sampov Bat Cave Community chief Dam Chhang told The Post on Wednesday that 20 years ago, bats lived in six caves in the district, three in Phnom Sampov, two in Phnom Krapeu and one in Phnom Banan.
Calls for action to protect dwindling bat population
Proceeds go to the maintenance of the bat sanctuary.
Samal Island reaps rewards of conservation: 2.5M bats!
The Monfort Bat Colony in Samal landed in the Guinness annals as having the largest colony in the world with roughly 1.8 million Geoffroy's Rousette fruit bats.
PH bat conservation move lauded
Throughout the book, Laidlaw has included the profiles of 10 'Bat Citizens'--young people participating in citizen science to help protect bat populations.
Bat Citizens: Defending the Ninjas of the Night
"I thought, if this bacteria can prevent fungus from growing on a banana, maybe it can prevent it from growing on a bat," says Cornelison.
Bat protector: Chris Cornelison works to save bats from a fatal disease
Key words: bat, Hoary Bat, interspecific aggression, Lasionycteris noctivagans, Lasiurus cinereus, rabies, Silver-haired Bat
Another account of interspecific aggression involving a Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
The Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) is honored to announce that Bat World Sanctuary in Weatherford, Texas has achieved GFAS Accreditation.
Bat World Sanctuary Earns Accreditation from Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries
Bat scientist Nickolay Hristov, design researcher with the Center for Design Innovation and an assistant professor of biological sciences at Winston-Salem State .
Batmania!
QUESTION: We have seen a house we really like, but apparently it has bats in the roofspace.
Bats aren't the stuff of nightmares for buyers; With Derek Abbott, FRICS, of Hollier Browne, Chartered Surveyors
For one thing, Meliandou is not located near fruit bat roosting sites where the child might have come in contact with an infected animal or tainted fruit, and there is no evidence that the family ate fruit bats.
Insect-eating bats implicated as Ebola outbreak source: tree in guinea harbored suspects in infection of 2-year-oid who was first victim in epidemic