batter
IPA: bˈætɝ
noun
- (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.
- (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
- A paste of clay or loam.
- (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
- (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
- (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
- (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
- (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
verb
- To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
- (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
- (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
- (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
- (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
- (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
- (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
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Examples of "batter" in Sentences
- The clothes are old and battered.
- Pour the tea into the batter and stir.
- This batter is now going to the fridge.
- Its primary purpose is the safety of the batter.
- A spam fritter is a slice of Spam fried in batter.
- A battered copy of the manuscript is kept in the British Museum.
- At the end of the passage, a battered Bellick lies on the floor.
- In the case of the type of batter, the answer is definitely yes.
- Clip the ends and bruise them and beat the cake batter with them.
- A fastball will tail into the batter of the same handedness as the.
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