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bats

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bats  (bts)
adj. Slang
Crazy; insane.
[From bats in the belfry.]
bats
Adjective
Informal mad or eccentric
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Adj.1.batsbats - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, around the bend, balmy, nuts, round the bend, wacky, whacky, nutty, barmy, loopy, fruity, cracked
insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"
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SUSPICIONS amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
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Many of the windows were unglazed, and bats flew in and out like doves out of a dove-cote.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
That silence seemed to ooze out of the ground, to hang under the foliage of the black maple trees with the bats and shadows.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
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