<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball.</li><li>a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis.</li><li>a whip used by a jockey.</li><li>the act of using a club or racket in a game.</li><li>the right or turn to use a club or racket.</li><li>a heavy stick, club, or cudgel.</li><li>Informal: a blow, as with a bat.</li><li>any fragment of brick or hardened clay.</li><li>Masonry: a brick cut transversely so as to leave one end whole.</li><li>British Slang: speed; rate of motion or progress, especially the pace of the stroke or step of a race.</li><li>Slang: a spree; binge: to go on a bat.</li><li>Ceramics: a sheet of gelatin or glue used in bat printing.</li><li>a slab of moist clay.</li><li>a ledge or shelf in a kiln.</li><li>a slab of plaster for holding a piece being modeled or for absorbing excess water from slip.</li><li>batt.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to strike or hit with or as if with a bat or club.</li><li>Synonyms: clobber, clout, slug, sock, smack, swat, wallop, knock.</li><li>Baseball: to have a batting average of; hit: He batted .325 in spring training.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>Sports: to strike at the ball with the bat.</li><li>to take one's turn as a batter.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>Slang: to roam; drift.</li><li>Informal: to discuss or ponder; debate: We batted the idea around.</li><li>Baseball: to have every player in the lineup take a turn at bat during a single inning.</li><li>Baseball: to cause (a run) to be scored by getting a hit: He batted in two runs with a double to left.</li><li>to do, write, produce, etc., hurriedly: I have to bat out a term paper before class.</li></ul>