Bat (disambiguation)

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A bat is a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera.

Bat or The Bat may also refer to:

People with the name or nickname

• Bat, alternative spelling of Batu, a Mongol-Turkic given name
• Bat Khurts, head of the Executive Office of the Mongolian National Security Council and the former leader of Mongolia's Central Spy Agency
• Bat Masterson (1853–1921), legend of the American Old West

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictitious entities

• Bat Lash, DC Comics character

Films

• The Bat (1926 film), 1926 silent film based on the play
• The Bat (1959 film), 1959 film based on the same play

Literature

• The Bat (novel), 1997 detective book by Jo Nesbø
• The Bat (play), a 1920 Broadway play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
• The Bat, a 1926 novel attributed to P. Nesshead, based on the play

Stage productions

• Die Fledermaus (The Bat), an 1874 comic operetta by Johann Strauss II
• La Chauve-Souris (The Bat), a Russian-French touring revue in the early 1900s

Computing

• Bat (metasyntactic variable), a placeholder name
• .bat, file extension for a batch file, a file type that batch executes commands
• The Bat!, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows

Military

• Bat (bomber), McDonnell XP-67 Bat experimental jet airplane
• Bat (guided bomb), developed by the U.S. during World War II
• Bat bomb, an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States
• HMS Bat, a Royal Navy destroyer
• Northrop Grumman Bat, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman
• USS Bat (1864), a steamer captured by the U.S. during the American Civil War

Roller coasters

• Bat (Lagoon), a roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park in Utah, United States
• The Bat (Canada's Wonderland), a roller coaster in Ontario
• The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1981), a defunct roller coaster at Kings Island in Ohio, United States, that closed in 1983
• The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993), an operating roller coaster at Kings Island, previously known as Top Gun and Flight Deck

Sports

• Bat, in bat-and-ball games
  • Baseball bat
  • Bolo bat
  • Cricket bat
  • Table tennis racket or bat

Other uses

• Bat (goddess), in Egyptian mythology, a deification of the Milky Way
• Bat (heraldry), the image of a bat (animal) used as a heraldic device
• bat, ISO 639-2 code for Baltic languages
• Bat Motor Manufacturing Co., defunct manufacturers of motorcycles and tricars
• Slang for One-hitter (smoking)

See also

• BAT (disambiguation)
• Batting (material)
• Batman (disambiguation)
• Bats (disambiguation)