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Today it means: Belonging to or associated with Batman; sometimes said of bat-themed objects used by him. Full definition →

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bat- · prefix¹

See Bat- § Etymology.

Bat- · prefix²

Originally of the nature of a noun adjunct forming compound nouns, first bat + man = the batman or the Bat-Man = Batman, then later bat-phone = Bat-phone, bat-signal = Bat-signal, and so on.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.