Bat (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 In sports 2 In entertainment 3 In computers 4 Military 5 Roller coasters 6 Slang 7 Others 8 See also

A bat is a flying mammal in the Chiroptera order.

Bat and similar may refer to:

[edit] In sports

• Baseball bat, cylindrical club used in the game of baseball
• Cricket bat, flattened club used in the game of cricket
• Louisville Bats, an AAA minor league baseball team based in Louisville, Kentucky

[edit] In entertainment

• The Bat (1926 film), a silent film based on a play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
• The Bat (1959 film), based on the same Rinehart/Hopwood play
• Bats (film) (1999), starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Bob Gunton
• The Bats, a New Zealand rock band
• Die Fledermaus, (English: The Bat), 1874 comic operetta
• Batman, a fictional comic book superhero
• Le Chauve-Souris, (English: The Bat), a touring revue during the early 1900s

[edit] In computers

• The Bat!, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows
• Bat (metasyntactic variable), an alternative to quux
• .bat, batch file for MS-DOS, OS/2, and Windows shell programs

[edit] Military

• Bat (guided bomb), a radar-guided, air-to-surface glide bomb
• HMS Bat, two Royal Navy ships

[edit] Roller coasters

• The Bat (Canada's Wonderland), a roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland
• The Bat (Kings Island), a roller coaster at Kings Island
• Bat (Lagoon) a roller coaster at Lagoon

[edit] Slang

• Woman, offensive slang i.e. "old bat"
• Chillum (pipe), a metal pipe shaped and colored to look like a cigarette, especially when used with a dugout

[edit] Others

• Bat (goddess), in Egyptian mythology, a deification of the Milky Way
• Bats people, a small Nakh-speaking community in the country of Georgia
• British American Tobacco, the second largest listed tobacco company in the world.
• Bats, Landes, a commune of the Landes département of France
• Baltic languages, whose ISO 639 alpha-3 code is "bat"
• Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study, a long-term oceanographic study site
• Alfa Romeo BAT, a series of concept cars by Alfa Romeo
• "Daughter", in Hebrew, as in Bat mitzvah
• BMW E9, often referred to as the Batmobile

[edit] See also

• BAT (disambiguation)
• Batman (disambiguation)