# bats

Pronunciation: say "BATS" /bæts/

## Noun

1. Plural of bat. — plural of bat
   - Simple: Plural of bat. Use it when you mean more than one bat.
   - _At dusk, thousands of bats poured out of the cavern._
   - _The team's bats cracked loudly against the fast deliveries._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of bat. — third-person singular simple present indicative of bat
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of bat. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _The cat bats the toy mouse across the kitchen floor._
   - _She bats cleanup for her softball team every weekend._

## Adjective

3. Crazy; mad or insane. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Crazy, or not thinking in a normal way.
   - _By the end of the trip, the constant delays had driven her bats._
   - _Everyone thought the old inventor was a little bats, but his designs worked._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/bats (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).