batter

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbætə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbætəɹ/, [ˈbæɾɚ]

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• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
• Homophone: badder (in accents with flapping)

Borrowed from Old French batre (“to beat”).

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

   The firemen battered down the door.

2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

   I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.

3. (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

   Synonym: thrash

   Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.

   • 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):

     There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.

4. (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.

   Synonym: intoxicate

   That cocktails will batter you!

   I was battered last night on our pub crawl.

5. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

• battered person syndrome
• battered woman syndrome

From Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”).

batter (plural batters)

1. (cooking) 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

   pancake batter

   To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter.

2. A binge, a heavy drinking session.

   Synonym: binge

   When he went on a batter, he became very violent.

3. A paste of clay or loam.

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4. (printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

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batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

batter (plural batters)

1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

bat +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

batter (plural batters)

1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

   Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)

   The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.

2. (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

   Synonym: batsman

   • 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo

     It's hard to put this on his shoulders while the guy is so young, but I firmly believe Kane could go down as New Zealand's greatest ever batter.

• Tarbet, tabret

• IPA^(key): /ba.te/

batter

1. (sports) to bat

batter

1. Apocopic form of battere

• in un batter d'occhio

From Old High German bittar, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Cognate with German bitter, English bitter, Dutch bitter, Icelandic bitur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbateʀ/, [ˈbɑtɐ]

batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)

1. bitter

• (tastes) Geschmaach; batter, salzeg, sauer, séiss ^{(Category: lb:Taste)}

batter (uncountable)

1. batter
2. glue; paste