US /bæts/ UK /bæts/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    crazy or eccentric

    You'd have to be bats to swim in that freezing lake.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · crazy or eccentric crazymadbattyloonydafteccentricnuts
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Word family
Related forms battybat

Etymology

From the phrase 'bats in the belfry', likening a disordered mind to a belfry full of erratically flapping bats; early 20th-century informal.

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