bat wing

Noun

batwing (plural batwings)

1. The wing of a bat, or its shape.
   • The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brown batwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 491
2. Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura.
3. (slang) An area of flabby fat under a person's arms.

   Synonyms:

   bingo wings

4. A long sleeve with a deep armhole, tapering toward the wrist.

   Synonyms:

   magyar sleeve

5. One of a pair of swinging doors which typically do not lock nor cover the full vertical range of the doorway (leaving a large gap at the top and bottom), common especially in saloons.
   • The cantina was a flatroofed adobe, painfully white in the unrelenting sun, with a brush roof and splintery batwings. The doors swung back and forth as a man stepped before them and stood beneath the brush arbor, staring at Navarro,[…]2005 April 5, Ralph Compton, Peter Brandvold, Ralph Compton Navarro, Penguin, →ISBN
6. A heart-shaped rollercoaster feature with two inversions.

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