What does bataca mean?
Bataca means bat or club with heavy padding for sparring or therapeutic use without causing injury.
Bataca
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bataca is a noun meaning bat or club with heavy padding for sparring or therapeutic use without causing injury.
Meaning
bat or club with heavy padding for sparring or therapeutic use without causing injury.
Example Sentences
For about a year or so, I even used batacas, so that the actors could vent anger, frustration, and hostility. A bataca was a round, heavily padded instrument with a handle, with which two actors would beat each other.
When engaged in a fantasy monologue, the teacher who is experiencing angry conflict with a student will need a soft chair or bed and a bataca (which is a stick with heavy padding on it) or simply a newspaper that has been tightly rolled.
She agreed, and the therapist instructed her on how to start by demonstrating how to use a bataca (padded bat) to release the anger physically. As he demonstrated the use of the bataca, the subject recoiled and revealed to him that she had been hit and physically abused by her ex-husband.
Word Forms
- batacas
- bataca bat
- Bataca bat
- bataka
Related Words
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How do you use bataca in a sentence?
For about a year or so, I even used batacas, so that the actors could vent anger, frustration, and hostility. A bataca was a round, heavily padded instrument with a handle, with which two actors would beat each other.
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