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bats

nounverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //bæts//

Mad, insane.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of batplural of bat

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of batthird-person singular simple present indicative of bat

adjective

  1. 1

    informalMad, insane.

    You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.

    "Don't be so bats, Binns! Why should anyone want to pinch just one boot?" "He might have been a chap with only one leg."

Forms

comparative
more bats
superlative
most bats
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).