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I 1. [bæt] noun(a shaped piece of wood etc for striking the ball in cricket, baseball, table-tennis etc.) kij, lopar2. verb1) (to use a bat: He bats with his left hand.) uporabljati kij, lopar2) (to strike (the ball) with a bat: He batted the ball.) udariti s kijem•- batsman- off one's own bat II [bæt] noun(a mouse-like animal which flies, usually at night.) netopir- batty* * *I [bæt]nounzoology netopiras blind as a bat — skoraj slep, skrajno kratkovidenhe's got bats in the belfry — čudne muhe mu rojijo po glavi, ima čudne domislekeII [bæt]nounpalica za kriket, baseball ipd., lopar; gorjača, krepelce; igrač, odbijalec (kriketa)off one's own bat — samostojen; na lastno odgovornost; brez tuje pomočiat a rare ( —ali good) bat — zelo urno, hitroright off the bat — nemudoma, takojAmerican to come to bat — spoprijeti se s težko nalogo, lotiti se hudega problemato be at bat figuratively biti pri krmilu, imeti oblastIII [bæt]intransitive verb & transitive verbudariti, zadeti; American dialectal mežikatiIV [bæt]nouncolloquially tuj jezikV [bæt]nounAmerican slang veseljačenje, popivanjeto go on a bat — krokati, veseljačiti
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