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bat out

bat out verb: to expel, using bats, paddles or similar things.

Verb

bat out (third-person singular simple present bats out, present participle batting out, simple past and past participle batted out)

  1. (transitive) to expel, using bats, paddles or similar things.
  2. (transitive) to churn out, produce hurriedly
  3. (transitive) to flatten something (e.g. with a rolling pin)
  4. to continue batting (normally to prevent what would otherwise result in losing a match)

Forms of bat out

third-person singular presentbats out
present participlebatting out
past participlebatted out
pastbatted out

Questions about bat out

What does bat out mean?
Bat out means to expel, using bats, paddles or similar things.
What part of speech is bat out?
Bat out is a verb.
What is the past tense of bat out?
The past tense of bat out is batted out.

Words near bat out in the dictionary

  1. bat nuts
  2. bat of an eye
  3. bat one thousand
  4. bat one's eyelashes
  5. bat one's eyes
  6. bat out
  7. bat phone
  8. bat phones
  9. bat ray
  10. bat rays
  11. bat round

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