Batter

Quick meaning: Batter is a verb meaning To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

Meaning

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

More Meanings

1. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
2. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
3. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
4. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
5. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
6. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
7. (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.

Example Sentences

That cocktail will batter you!

The firemen battered down the door.

Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.

I was battered last night on our pub crawl.

Word Forms

• batters
• battering
• battered

Synonyms for batter

Depending on context, synonyms include batsman, thrash, intoxicate, bender, binge, hitter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clobber, hitter, slugger, dinge, baste, buffet.

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