BATS

balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky

(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

bats

plural of bat

Verb

bats

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bat

Adjective

bats (comparative more bats, superlative most bats)

(informal) Mad, insane.

Anagrams

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, Bast, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, stab, tabs

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Bats

A Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh family, spoken in Georgia.

Synonyms

• Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, Batsi, Tsova-Tush; Tush, Mosok (obsolete)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Bats

A commune in France

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Bats

A nickname for Batman.

Anagrams

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, Bast, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, stab, tabs

Source: Wiktionary

BAT

Bat, n. Etym: [OE. batte, botte, AS. batt; perhaps fr. the Celtic; cf. Ir. bat, bata, stick, staff; but cf. also F. batte a beater (thing), wooden sword, battre to beat.]

1. A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

2. (Mining)

Definition: Shale or bituminous shale. Kirwan.

3. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

4. A part of a brick with one whole end. Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.

Bat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Batted (p. pr. & vb. n. Batting.]

Definition: To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. Holland.

Bat, v. i.

Definition: To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.

Bat, n. Etym: [Corrupt. from OE. back, backe, balke; cf. Dan. aften- bakke] (aften evening), Sw. natt-backa] (natt night), Icel. le (le leather), Icel. blaka to flutter.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition