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bat
verb
to dance on a stage UK
Also spelled “batt” or “bate”.- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 164, 2002
▶ bat on a sticky wicket- to contend with great difficulties UK, 1952
From the game of cricket; the ball bounces unpredictably on a pitch that is drying out. - to have sex with a woman who has recently had sex with another man or other men AUSTRALIA
- — Thommo, The Dictionary of Australian Swearing and Sex Sayings, p. 15, 1985
▶ bat the breeze
to talk, chat or gossip US, 1941- Jenkins, you’ve been around the Hall long enough to know a murder isn’t something we bat the breeze about. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 23, 1951
- A klatsch of kids was batting the breeze about five or six cars away from his own[.] — Morton Cooper, High School Confidential, p. 32, 1958
- Buchanan would introduce them and I’d buy another drink, bat the breeze. — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 241, 1998
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