I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cricket bat (= that you use to hit the ball )
bat mitzvah
batting/catching etc practice
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We'd better do a bit of batting practice before the game.
fruit bat
right off the bat American English (= immediately, without having to think carefully )
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Kay answered right off the bat.
vampire bat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baseball
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The others, the storm-troopers or Sturmabteilungen, would spread through the crowds, wielding clubs, baseball bats and sometimes knives.
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Families with children carrying picnic baskets, thermoses, baseball bats , shoulder bags.
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Get tooled up with baseball bats and go smash some windows in some club.
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Three of the seven players told investigators they put Tiger in a bag and beat her with baseball bats .
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A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.
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It feels like a kick in the stomach or a blow with a baseball bat .
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I heave on the baseball bat , and wrench the chain from the big guy's hand.
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One of her cases involved a 17-year-old girl whose father routinely attacked the family, once with a baseball bat .
cricket
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Taking a cricket bat to the audition isn't a bad idea although you can get the same effect with an umbrella.
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The one best cricket bat of his youth was becoming the one best Midvale.
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Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years.
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The following Summer in London, while shopping for a cricket bat , his journal fills with prices and estimates of quality.
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Opposite: The cricket bat was made by John Wisden &038; Co.
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Peters &038; Son, a store carrying ship models and archery equipment along with cricket bats , particularly draws his attention.
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Suddenly I was jumping, yelling out as the flagstone beat my feet like a cudgel or stone cricket bat .
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In the event, Hilary rummaged around in the gym and found a cricket bat and ball.
■ VERB
carry
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The following season, he carried his bat for a brilliant 215 not out against Lancashire at Old Trafford.
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I carry the bat , the glove.
swing
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Felt queasy after, but swung the bat okay and then came back to the hotel, which is small but clean.
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I kept swinging the bat , but by now Guy and Carmine had biked out of range and were looking back.
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We have the hitter sit on the ball swinging a bat .
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Both throw a lot of strikes and both make hitters swing the bat early in the count.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as blind as a bat
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Didn't you see me coming? You must be as blind as a bat!
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I'm as blind as a bat without my glasses.
old fool/bastard/bat etc
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Am I to be troubled by a skinny old fool in mirror shades?
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An old fool if you like.
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But then the old fool should have been a little less unwashed and boring.
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He was no more to her, he thought, than a tiresome old man, an old fool.
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Look there that old fool Broom, slipped off to sleep.
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She thought what an undecided old fool Phoebe was, but it made her outburst at the Frolic all the more courageous.
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The old bats included a plastic, an aluminum and a wooden one.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Felt queasy after, but swung the bat okay and then came back to the hotel, which is small but clean.
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Noctuid moths are eaten by bats, and have evolved a special pair of ears to warn them of approaching danger.
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Our classmates tested five bats from K. C. Slammer.
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The murder is perfectly executed, except that the baseball bat left at the scene of the crime is sticky with fingerprints.
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The tunnel is a place only a bat could love.
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This is tested by gagging the bats before releasing them.
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Upon being blocked off from the courtyard, the bat would soon have led him to freedom.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
eyelid
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Susan, my long suffering wife, who never batted an eyelid as this project unfolded and gave me lots of encouragement.
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None of the regulars batted an eyelid , but the sweaty faces of the dance-crazy Glaswegians fell. 2.30?
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And farmers watching a demonstration of grass cutters didn't bat an eyelid at the state of the pasture.
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Nothing much ever happened in Surrey Hills, and nobody batted an eyelid .
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Today, no-one bats an eyelid as he takes a stroll along the ley-lines of Wiltshire.
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In fact she didn't bat an eyelid .
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Did saints ever bat their eyelids and look sleepily self-satisfied as cats?
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Tom didn't bat an eyelid at the warm fog.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the hearing you return to the gallery to bat out a quick story.
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He batted 205 minutes in the second innings, making 65 not out.
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I noticed that she blinked a lot and, at times, seemed to be trying to bat away the dust.
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In a tight match at Christleton visitors Oakmere batted first and set a total of 165 for five, Paul Matthews 66.
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Laxman batted for 12 hours in two innings over three days here, and naturally was man of the match.