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bat

1. n. a drinking bout. She was on a bat that lasted over a week.

2. n. a drunkard; a person on a drinking spree. A tired old bat—still waving a bottle—met me on the stairs.

See:

• at bat
• bat
• bat (one's) eyelashes
• bat (one's) eyes
• bat a thousand
• bat an eye
• bat an eyelash
• bat an eyelid
• bat around
• bat five hundred
• bat for both sides
• bat for the other side
• bat for the other team
• bat one thousand
• bat out
• bat the breeze
• batted
• batted out
• be (as) blind as a bat
• be as blind as a bat
• blind as a bat
• go to bat against
• go to bat for
• like a bat out of hell
• not bat an eye
• not bat an eyelid
• off own bat
• off the bat
• play a straight bat
• right off the bat
• shoot the breeze
• without batting an eye