adj
Meaning 1
Mad, insane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: batshit
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bats
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/bæts/
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CMU ARPABET: B AE1 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh family, spoken in Georgia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A commune in Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 4
A nickname for Batman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
plural of bat
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
third-person singular simple present indicative of bat
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it used to drive my husband balmy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: balmy, barmy, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Bat(man) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: բաց (bacʻ) — language
- Armenian: բացբերեն (bacʻberen) — language
- Armenian: թուշերեն (tʻušeren) — language
- Bats: ბაცბანმოტ (bacbãmoṭ) — language
- Breton: Batseg — language
- Bulgarian: бацбийски (bacbijski) — language
- Chechen: бацойн (bacojn) — language
- Chechen: бацойн мотт (bacojn mott) — language
- Chechen: цоватойн мотт (covatojn mott) — language
- Chechen: цова-тушинийн мотт (cova-tušiniı̇n mott) — language
- Esperanto: bacba lingvo — language
- Finnish: batsi — language
- French: Bats — language
- Georgian: ბაცბური ენა (bacburi ena) — language
- Georgian: წოვათუშური ენა (c̣ovatušuri ena) — language
- German: Batsische — language
- Hebrew: באצבית — language
- Italian: bats — language
- Macedonian: батски (batski) — language
- Mingrelian: ბაცბური ნინა (bacburi nina) — language
- Norwegian: batsisk — language
- Polish: język bacbijski — language
- Portuguese: bats — language
- Russian: бацбийский (bacbijskij) — language
- Russian: цо́ва-тушинский (cóva-tušinskij) — language
- Serbo-Croatian: bacbijski — language
- Thai: ภาษาบัตส์ (paasăa bàt) — language
- Turkish: batsça — language
- Ukrainian: бацбійська (bacbijsʹka) — language
- Basque: Vaths — a commune in France
- Catalan: Vaths — a commune in France
- Dutch: Bats — a commune in France
- French: Bats — a commune in France
- Italian: Bats — a commune in France
- Occitan: Vaths — a commune in France
- Piedmontese: Bats — a commune in France
- Polish: Bats — a commune in France
- Portuguese: Bats — a commune in France
- Romanian: Bats — a commune in France
- Spanish: Bats — a commune in France