Usually means: Mammal that flies, uses echolocation.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. BAT, bat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bat, bat, bat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. BAT, bat, bat, bat, bat, bat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ba't, Bat, ba't, bat: Wordnik
  7. bat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BAT, Bat-: Wiktionary
  9. bat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BAT, bat: Dictionary.com
  13. bat (n1.), bat (n2.), bat (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. B.A.T, B.A.T. (G.I. Joe), B.A.T. (video game), BAT (disambiguation), BAT, Bat (Lagoon), Bat (animal), Bat (disambiguation), Bat (food), Bat (goddess), Bat (guided bomb), Bat (heraldry), Bat, The Bat (novel), The Bat (play), The Bat, The Bat, .bat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bat: Rhymezone
  19. bat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Bat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. bat: Free Dictionary
  24. bat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. BAT, bat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. bat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. bat: Wiktionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bat: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. bat-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bat: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bat (animal), bat: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Bat (animal), .bat, bat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BAT: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  3. BAT, Bat (animal): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. BAT: Acronym Finder
  3. BAT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. bat: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bat: Easton Bible
  2. Bat: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bat: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Glossary of chlorine and other chemical related terms (No longer online)
  4. BAT: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bat, bat, bat, bat, bat, bat, bat, bat, bat, bat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. B.A.T, B.A.T, Bat, bat, the bat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BAT: Body Building
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  4. Bat: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  3. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/b.html">Bat: Ceramic Terminology Glossary
  4. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Bat: Construction Glossary
  7. Bat: Pottery Studio
  8. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bating as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
noun:  (derogatory) An old woman.
noun:  A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
noun:  A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
noun:  A player rated according to skill in batting.
noun:  (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
noun:  (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
noun:  A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
noun:  A part of a brick with one whole end.
noun:  A stroke; a sharp blow.
noun:  (UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
noun:  (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
noun:  (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification; a binge, jag.
noun:  (UK, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
noun:  (Kent, Sussex) A rough walking stick.
verb:  (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
verb:  (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
verb:  (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
verb:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
verb:  (transitive) To flutter
verb:  (US, UK, dialect) To wink.
verb:  (intransitive, usually with ‘around’ or ‘about’) To flit quickly from place to place.
noun:  (obsolete) A packsaddle.
noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) A child's shoe without a welt.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A boot that is badly made or in poor condition.
noun:  Dated form of baht (“Thai currency”). [The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.]
noun:  (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“buttocks or anus”). [(West Indian slang, MLE, MTE) The buttocks or anus.]
noun:  (sports) Abbreviation of Bathurst. [A surname.]
noun:  Initialism of best available technology: a principle applying to regulations on limiting pollutant discharges.
noun:  Initialism of brown adipose tissue. [(anatomy, physiology) One of the two types of adipose tissue present in many newborn or hibernating mammals which primarily serves to generate body heat, and which contains several small vacuoles and a relatively high number of mitochondria and capillaries.]

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