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v.1

“to move the eyelids,” 1847, American English, from earlier sense of “flutter as a hawk” (1610s), a variant of bate (v.2) on the notion of fluttering wings. Related: Batted; batting.

In addition to the idioms beginning with bat

  • bat an eye
  • bat around
  • bat one thousand
  • bats in one’s belfry, have
  • bat the breeze

also see:

  • at bat
  • blind as a bat
  • bats in one’s belfry
  • go to bat for
  • like a bat out of hell

right off the bat.

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