Synonyms and Antonyms of bats
- a sharp bat with a rolled-up newspaper and that fly was a goner
bangs, bashes, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, boxes, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clips, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, douses [British], fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, knocks, larrups [dialect], lashes, licks, pelts, picks, plumps, pokes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, switches, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops (also whaps)
counters, counterblows (or counter-blows), counterpunches, counterstrokes (or counter-strokes)
body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, rights, right-handers, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercuts
crunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOs
bastinadoes (or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashings
- riot policemen armed with bats and tear gas
bastinadoes (or bastinades), batons, billies, billy clubs, bludgeons, canes, clubs, cudgels, nightsticks, rods, rungs [Scottish], saps, shillelaghs (also shillalahs), staffs (or staves), truncheons, waddies [Australian]