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bats

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bats  (bts)
adj. Slang
Crazy; insane.

[From bats in the belfry.]

bats [bæts]
adj
Informal crazy; very eccentric
[from bats-in-the-belfry (sense 2)]
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Adj.1.batsbats - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"
Translations
bats
adj pred (inf)bekloppt (inf); you must be batsdu spinnst wohl! (inf)


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SUSPICIONS amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
Many of the windows were unglazed, and bats flew in and out like doves out of a dove-cote.
That silence seemed to ooze out of the ground, to hang under the foliage of the black maple trees with the bats and shadows.
 
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