batwing
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batwing
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From bat + wing.
noun batwings · bat wing · bat-wing · bat's wing
- The wing of a bat, or its shape. The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brown batwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky.
- Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura.
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An area of flabby fat under a person's arms.
Similar: bingo wings
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A long sleeve with a deep armhole, tapering toward the wrist.
Similar: magyar sleeve
- 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. The cantina was a flatroofed adobe, painfully white in the unrelenting sun, with a brush roof and splintery batwings. The doors swung back and forth as a man stepped before them and stood beneath the brush arbor, staring at Navarro,[…]
- A heart-shaped rollercoaster feature with two inversions.
- An exercise or posture on the stomach wherein a dumbbell row or lateral raise is performed.
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title = {batwing},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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