Phrase Hound found 102 phrases and 38 compound words that contain bats. The most common are listed below. Open bats in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 102
- baseball batsplural of baseball bat: A long instrument, typically wood, metal, or plastic, which is swung to strike baseballs.
- cricket batsplural of cricket bat: a bat, traditionally made from willow, used to play cricket
- fruit batsplural of fruit bat: Any of several tropical fruit-eating bats of the family Pteropodidae; a megabat.
- Indiana batsplural of Indiana bat: Myotis sodalis, a medium-sized mouse-eared bat native to North America.
- vampire batsplural of vampire bat: Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their …
- horseshoe batsplural of horseshoe bat: A bat of the genus Rhinolophus.
- alien space batsAn implausible point of divergence from reality, used as a plot device in alternate history.
- false vampire batsplural of false vampire bat: A New World bat, Vampyrum spectrum; spectral bat.
- hollow-faced batsplural of hollow-faced bat: Any bat of the genus Nycteris.
- free-tailed batsplural of free-tailed bat: Any of family Molossidae of bats, many species of which are known as mastiff bats, of wide distribution, especially in the southern hemispere and in the Americas from the southern US to Argentina.
- slit-faced batsplural of slit-faced bat: Any bat of the genus Nycteris.
- vesper batsplural of vesper bat: Any member of the Vespertilionidae, a family of bats.
- leaf-nosed batsplural of leaf-nosed bat: A bat of the family Phyllostomidae, having a pointed projection on the snout.
- mouse-eared batsplural of mouse-eared bat: Any of the genus Myotis of bats within the family Vespertilionidae.
- greater mouse-eared batsplural of greater mouse-eared bat: A species of mouse-eared bat, Myotis myotis, native to Europe.
- have bats in one's belfryTo be crazy or eccentric.
- baby batsplural of baby bat: A fledgling member of the goth subculture.
- bats aboutthird-person singular simple present indicative of bat about: Alternative form of bat around (certain senses)
- bats aroundthird-person singular simple present indicative of bat around: To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.
- bats awaythird-person singular simple present indicative of bat away: To knock an object, usually a ball, away from oneself.
- bats deepthird-person singular simple present indicative of bat deep: To have a significant number of talented batters, even batting low in the order.
- bats outthird-person singular simple present indicative of bat out: to expel, using bats, paddles or similar things.
- bats roundthird-person singular simple present indicative of bat round: To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.
- big batsplural of big bat: A player who specializes in hitting home runs.
- cross batsplural of cross bat: The bat, when swung in a horizontal arc.
Compound words 38
- DickbatsDick Grayson in the role of Batman.
- batsoMad, insane.
- batsmenplural of batsman: A player of the batting side now on the field.
- combatsplural of combat: A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
- dingbatsplural of dingbat: A silly, crazy or stupid person.
- acrobatsplural of acrobat: An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
- moonbatsplural of moonbat: A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
- wombatsplural of wombat: A herbivorous, burrowing marsupial of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
- BatsfordA surname.
- Sabbatsplural of Sabbat: Any of the eight major holy days celebrated in Wicca.