Bats

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Bats

1. A Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh family, spoken in Georgia.

• Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, Batsi, Tsova-Tush; Tush, Mosok (obsolete)

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bats terms
• Bats language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ISO 639-3 code bbl (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Bats, bbl ⁠

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Bats

1. A commune in Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

Bat(man) +‎ -s (hypocoristic suffix)

Bats

1. A nickname for Batman.
   • 2014 July 23, Abraham Riesman, “Dear Hollywood: Stop Using Frank Miller’s Batman Stories As Source Material”, in Vulture‎:

     The Dark Knight Returns, published in four installments in 1986, is an extremely grim vision of a near-future Batman in a crime-ridden Gotham (reminiscent of Death Wish–era New York) that went to seed after Bats hung up the cape and cowl years prior.

• Batsy
• Dickbats

• Supes

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, BTAS, Bast, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, stab, tabs