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batter
noun
a board used to cover a window before a hurricane or storm BAHAMAS- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 12, 1982
▶ on the batter- engaging in a self-indulgent variety of drinks, drugs and other recreational excesses UK, 1839
- [I]f you cannot hack your life [...] after just one pathetic little old-fashioned night on the batter, you should not be doing it at all[.] — James Hawes, Dead Long Enough, p. 13, 2000
- on the run from the police UK, 1984
- to be working as a prostitute UK, 1890
Variation of ON THE BAT- “Aunt Polly” the lodger, who, I afterward discovered, was on the batter. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 164, 1956
- [H]avin’ to go on the batter day in an’ day out and havin’ to open up for ’em all[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 58, 1962
- May be he was hurrying to his girlfriend and was on the batter. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 39, 1964
- — Maledicta, p. 147, Summer/Winter 1986–1987: “Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles, flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles”
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