bats

/bæts/

name 3adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

afraid, dark, full, many, over

VERB + BATS

associate, don't, eat, hated, think, thinks, wonder

BATS + NOUN

belfry, binns, birds, cats, cleanup, echolocation, mammals, reptiles

PREP.

in, on, out, with, with, without

ADV.

usually

Definitions

adj

Mad, 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."

name

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

name

A commune in Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

balmy
barmy
batty
bonkers
buggy
cracked
crackers
daft

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

have bats in one's belfry

To be crazy or eccentric.

Anyone declaring himself Emperor of San Francisco probably had bats in his belfry.

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

"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."

Wiktionary

The Dark Knight Returns, published in four installments in 1986, is an extremely grim vision of a near-future Batman in a crime-ridden Gotham (reminiscent of Death Wish–era New York) that went to seed

Wiktionary

Tom bats cleanup on our team.

Tatoeba · #23588

Bats usually fly in the dark.

Tatoeba · #62328

No wonder we associate bats with dark places.

Tatoeba · #247176

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, bats is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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