Batwing

Quick meaning: Batwing is a noun meaning The wing of a bat, or its shape.

Meaning

The wing of a bat, or its shape.

More Meanings

1. Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura.
2. A long sleeve with a deep armhole, tapering toward the wrist.
3. A heart-shaped rollercoaster feature with two inversions.
4. (often attributive) An exercise or posture on the stomach wherein a dumbbell row or lateral raise is performed.
5. One of a pair of swinging doors which typically do not lock nor cover the full vertical range of the doorway (leaving a large gap at the top and bottom), common especially in saloons.
6. (slang) An area of flabby fat under a person's arms.

Example Sentences

A tall figure stepped up to the batwing doors of the saloon as Tommy and Matt passed.

The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brown batwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky.

His batwings were somehow more frightening for being the pathetic broken floundering things they were than if they had been strong, muscular beaters of the air.

He made it to the saloon undetected and slipped under the batwing and over to the table where he had left his saddlebags. They weren't there. Fargo ran his hands over the top of the table to be sure, and swore.

Word Forms

• batwings
• bat wing
• bat-wing
• bat's wing

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wing, backwing, winghead, wingform, flitterbat, mothwing.

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