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abbr. Bachelor of Arts in Teaching

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B0109000 (băt)n.1. A stout wooden stick; a cudgel.2. A blow, such as one delivered with a stick.3. Baseball A rounded, often wooden club, wider and heavier at the hitting end and tapering at the handle, used to strike the ball.4. Sports a. A club used in cricket, having a broad, flat-surfaced hitting end and a distinct, narrow handle.b. The racket used in various games, such as table tennis or racquets.v. bat·ted, bat·ting, bats v.tr.1. To hit with or as if with a bat.2. Baseball a. To cause (a run) to be scored while at bat: batted the winning run in with a double.b. To have (a certain percentage) as a batting average.3. Informal To discuss or consider at length: bat an idea around.v.intr.1. Baseball a. To use a bat.b. To have a turn at bat.2. Slang To wander about aimlessly.Phrasal Verb: bat out Informal To produce in a hurried or informal manner: batted out thank-you notes all morning.Idioms: at bat Sports Taking one's turn to bat, as in baseball or cricket. go to bat for To give assistance to; defend. right off the bat Without hesitation; immediately: They responded right off the bat.

[Middle English, perhaps partly of Celtic origin and partly from Old French batte, pounding implement, flail (from batre, to beat; see batter¹).]

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B0109000 (băt)n. Any of various nocturnal flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, having membranous wings that extend from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail and anatomical adaptations for echolocation, by which they navigate and hunt prey.Idiom: have bats in (one's) belfry To behave in an eccentric, bizarre manner.

[Alteration of Middle English bakke, of Scandinavian origin.]

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B0109000 (băt)tr.v. bat·ted, bat·ting, bats To wink or flutter: bat one's eyelashes.Idiom: not bat an eye/eyelash Informal To show no emotion; appear unaffected: The reporter didn't bat an eyelash while reading the gruesome news.

[Probably a variant of bate.]

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B0109000 (băt)n. Slang A binge; a spree.

[Probably from batter, spree.]

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(bæt) n1. (Ball Games, other than specified) any of various types of club with a handle, used to hit the ball in certain sports, such as cricket, baseball, or table tennis2. (Aeronautics) a flat round club with a short handle, resembling a table-tennis bat, used by a man on the ground to guide the pilot of an aircraft when taxiing3. (Cricket) cricket short for batsman4. any stout stick, esp a wooden one5. informal a blow from such a stick6. (Games, other than specified) Austral a small board used for tossing the coins in the game of two-up7. slang US and Canadian a drinking spree; binge8. slang speed; rate; pace: they went at a fair bat. 9. (Textiles) another word for batting¹10. (Cricket) carry one's bat cricket (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed11. off one's own bat a. of one's own accord; without being prompted by someone elseb. by one's own unaided efforts12. off the bat right off the bat informal US and Canadian immediately; without hesitationvb, bats, batting or batted13. (tr) to strike with or as if with a bat14. (General Sporting Terms) (intr) sport (of a player or a team) to take a turn at batting[Old English batt club, probably of Celtic origin; compare Gaelic bat, Russian bat]

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(bæt) n1. (Animals) any placental mammal of the order Chiroptera, being a nocturnal mouselike animal flying with a pair of membranous wings (patagia). The group is divided into the Megachiroptera (fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats). 2. slang an irritating or eccentric woman (esp in the phrase old bat)3. blind as a bat having extremely poor eyesight4. have bats in the belfry have bats in one's belfry informal to be mad or eccentric; have strange ideas5. like a bat out of hell slang very quickly[C14 bakke, probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse ledhrblaka leather-flapper, Swedish dialect natt-batta night bat] ˈbatlike adj

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(bæt) vb (tr) , bats, batting or batted1. to wink or flutter (one's eyelids)2. not bat an eye not bat an eyelid informal to show no surprise or concern[C17: probably a variant of bate²]

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n., v. bat•ted, bat•ting. n. 1. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. 2. a racket, esp. one used in badminton or table tennis. 3. a whip used by a jockey. 4. a heavy stick, club, or cudgel. 5. Informal. a blow, as with a bat. 6. any fragment of brick or hardened clay. 7. any of various slabs used in holding ceramic objects while they are being made. 8. batt. v.t. 9. to strike or hit with or as if with a bat or club. 10. (of a baseball player) to have a batting average of; hit. v.i. 11. a. to strike at the ball with the bat. b. to take one's turn as a batter. 12. Slang. to rush. 13. bat around, a. Slang. to roam; drift. b. Informal. to discuss: to bat around an idea. 14. bat in, to cause (a run in baseball) to be scored. 15. bat out, to produce quickly. Idioms: 1. at bat, a. taking one's turn to bat in a game. b. an instance at bat officially charged to a batter. 2. go to bat for, Informal. to intercede on behalf of. 3. (right) off the bat, without delay; instantly. [1175–1225; Middle English bat(te), bot, Old English batt]

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n. any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, having large wings made of membranes extending from the forelimbs to the hind limbs and navigating, usu. at night, by echolocation. Idioms: have bats in one's belfry, to have crazy ideas; behave insanely. [1570–75] bat′like`, adj.

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v.t. bat•ted, bat•ting. to blink; wink; flutter. Idioms: not bat an eye, to show no emotion. [1605–15; alter. of bate²]

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n. 1. Brit. rate of speed. 2. Slang. a spree. [1820–25]

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1. battalion. 2. battery.

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(băt) Any of various flying mammals that have thin wings consisting of skin that extends from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail. Bats are usually active at night and use echolocation to navigate.Did You Know? The well-known phrase "blind as a bat" is somewhat misleading. In fact, some bats have excellent eyesight, and bats on the whole are quite skilled in moving about and hunting prey in total darkness. Using a form of natural radar called echolocation, the bat emits a series of very high-pitched squeaks, inaudible to human ears, which reflect off objects in the bat's path. Relying on the pattern of echoes it hears, the bat can then avoid obstacles or home in on a specific target.

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Past participle: batted
Gerund: batting

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Present
I bat
you bat
he/she/it bats
we bat
you bat
they bat

Preterite
I batted
you batted
he/she/it batted
we batted
you batted
they batted

Present Continuous
I am batting
you are batting
he/she/it is batting
we are batting
you are batting
they are batting

Present Perfect
I have batted
you have batted
he/she/it has batted
we have batted
you have batted
they have batted

Past Continuous
I was batting
you were batting
he/she/it was batting
we were batting
you were batting
they were batting

Past Perfect
I had batted
you had batted
he/she/it had batted
we had batted
you had batted
they had batted

Future
I will bat
you will bat
he/she/it will bat
we will bat
you will bat
they will bat

Future Perfect
I will have batted
you will have batted
he/she/it will have batted
we will have batted
you will have batted
they will have batted

Future Continuous
I will be batting
you will be batting
he/she/it will be batting
we will be batting
you will be batting
they will be batting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been batting
you have been batting
he/she/it has been batting
we have been batting
you have been batting
they have been batting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been batting
you will have been batting
he/she/it will have been batting
we will have been batting
you will have been batting
they will have been batting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been batting
you had been batting
he/she/it had been batting
we had been batting
you had been batting
they had been batting

Conditional
I would bat
you would bat
he/she/it would bat
we would bat
you would bat
they would bat

Past Conditional
I would have batted
you would have batted
he/she/it would have batted
we would have batted
you would have batted
they would have batted

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bat - nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigatechiropteraneutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupialsChiroptera, order Chiroptera - an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats)fruit bat, megabat - large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruitcarnivorous bat, microbat - typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distributionwing - a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
	2.	bat - (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats"at-batturn, play - (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession; "it is my turn"; "it is still my play"baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"
	3.	bat - a small racket with a long handle used for playing squashsquash racket, squash racquetracquet, racket - a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
	4.	bat - the club used in playing cricket; "a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting"cricket batcricket equipment - sports equipment used in playing crickethandgrip, handle, grip, hold - the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"
	5.	bat - a club used for hitting a ball in various gamesbaseball bat, lumber - an implement used in baseball by the batterclub - stout stick that is larger at one end; "he carried a club in self defense"; "he felt as if he had been hit with a club"paddle - small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
Verb	1.	bat - strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"hit - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"bat - use a bat; "Who's batting?"bat - have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"switch-hit - bat right-handed against a left-handed and left-handed against a right-handed pitcher
	2.	bat - wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids"flutterblink, nictate, nictitate, wink - briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink"
	3.	bat - have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"hit - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"bat - strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
	4.	bat - use a bat; "Who's batting?" baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"hit - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"bat - strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
	5.	bat - beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"drub, lick, clobber, cream, thrashbeat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"flail, thrash, lam, thresh - give a thrashing to; beat hard

bat

¹noun club, stick, racket a baseball bat

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² nounRelated words
adjective chiropteran

Bats

barbastelle, false vampire, flying fox, fruit bat, hammerhead, horseshoe bat, insectivorous bat, kalong, noctule, pipistrelle, serotine, vampire bat

bat¹

verbTo open and close the eyes rapidly:blink, nictate, nictitate, twinkle, wink.

bat²

nounSlang. A drinking bout:binge, brannigan, carousal, carouse, drunk, spree.Slang: bender, booze, jag, tear.

Translations

蝙蝠球棒用球棒击球用球棒打挥打

bat¹

(bӕt) noun a shaped piece of wood etc for striking the ball in cricket, baseball, table-tennis etc. 球棒，球拍 verb – past tense, past participle batted – 1. to use a bat. He bats with his left hand.挥打2. to strike (the ball) with a bat. He batted the ball. 用球棒打（球） ˈbatsman (ˈbӕts-) noun a person who bats in cricket. （板球）击球手 off one's own bat completely by oneself (without help). He wrote the letter to the newspaper off his own bat.全靠自己力量

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(bӕt) noun a mouse-like animal which flies, usually at night. 蝙蝠ˈbatty adjective crazy. a batty old man.发疯的

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winged mammal of the order Chiroptera, which includes 900–1,000 species classified in about 200 genera and 17 families. Bats range in size from a wingspread of over 5 ft (150 cm) to a wingspread of less than 2 in. (5 cm). They are found in nearly all parts of the world but are most numerous in the tropics; there are about 39 species in the United States. Most bats are economically valuable because of the large number of insects they consume.

The body of the bat is mouselike and usually covered with fine fur. The face varies greatly from one species to another; many species have complex appendages on the snout and projections, or false ears, in front of the true ears; the ears themselves are often very large and elaborately convoluted. These facial structures are part of the sensory apparatus that emits and receives sound vibrations.

Some bats are solitary, living in caves, crevices, hollow trees, or attics; other species are communal, with thousands or even millions of bats roosting together in a cave or on branches in a section of forest. In some species of communal bats, the entire colony leaves the roost together in the evening and returns together in the morning; in others, individuals come and go at different times. Bats of northern regions migrate, hibernate, or both in winter.

In most species, males and females do not associate except during the mating season. Females of most species bear a single young in the summer of each year. The young are then carried by the mothers for a few days, after which they are left in the roost when not nursing; they begin to fly in a few weeks. The life span of some bats is 20 years in captivity.

Special Characteristics

Bat Flight

Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight, that is, flight powered by muscular movement as distinct from gliding. The wing is a double membrane of skin stretched between the enormously elongated bones of four fingers and extending along the body from the forelimbs to the hind limbs and from there to the tail. The thumb is small, clawed, and free from the membrane. The hind limbs are small and may be rotated in such a way that the knees bend backward rather than forward, as in other mammals; this is presumably an adaptation for takeoff and flight. Bats at rest hang head down, grasping a twig or crevice with their clawed feet; they take off into flight from this position.

Echolocation

Nearly all bats are nocturnal and many live in caves; although they see well, they rely primarily on their highly developed hearing, using echolocation (sonar) to avoid collisions and to capture insects in flight. The bat emits high-pitched sounds (up to 100,000 hertz) that echo from objects it encounters; the echo provides the bat with information about the size, shape, and distance of the object. The rate at which bats emit these squeaks is sometimes as high as 200 per second. Blinded bats easily find their way through complex obstacle courses, but deafness leaves them helpless.

Types of Bats

The bat order is divided on anatomical grounds into two major divisions, or suborders: the Megachiroptera, or fruit batsfruit bat,
fruit-eating bat found in tropical regions of the Old World. It is relatively large and differs from other bats in the possession of an independent, clawed second digit; it also depends on sight rather than echo-location in maintaining orientation.
..... Click the link for more information. , found only in the Old World tropics, and the Microchiroptera, or insect-eating bats, with a worldwide distribution. The fruit bats include the largest species of bat, the flying foxes, which may weigh 2 or 3 lbs (.9 to 1.4 kg). Their diet is confined almost entirely to fruit, nectar, and pollen. The insect-eating bats include the smallest bat species. Despite the name, some of these bats live wholly or largely on fruit; a large number eat insects and, in some cases, larger animals. Members of several species catch fish as they skim over water, and the South American vampire batsvampire bat,
name for the blood-drinking bats of the family Desmodontidae, found in the New World tropics. Vampire bats feed exclusively on the blood of living animals and are thus the only true parasites among mammals. There are three species ranging from Argentina to N Mexico.
..... Click the link for more information. feed exclusively on blood.

The most common bats of the temperate Northern Hemisphere are the Old World horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus), characterized by one or two horseshoe-shaped facial appendages, the cosmopolitan little brown bats (Myotis), big brown bats, or serotines (Eptesicus), and pipistrelles (Pipistrellus). The last three, all represented by species in North America, belong to the plain-nosed bat family (Vespertilionidae), characterized by a lack of appendages on the snout.

There are over a dozen species of Myotis in North America; the common little brown bat, M. lucifugus, is distributed over the entire continent from Alaska and Labrador to the S United States. A colonial bat, it is found in many habitats, including houses. It is about 2 1-2 in. (6.3 cm) long without the tail and weighs about 1-4 oz (7 grams). The North American big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus, of similar distribution, is about three times as heavy, with a wingspread of 12 in. (30 cm). The little and big brown bats are among the species susceptible to white-nose syndrome, which leads to water loss and emaciation during winter hibernation. Identified in 2006 and caused by the fungus Geomyces destructans, it has been devastating to infected bat colonies in North America. Large, solitary North American bats of wide distribution are the hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus, yellow-brown with silver frosting, and the red bat, L. borealis, which is a striking brick-red color. Both have soft, thick fur and roost in trees.

The freetail bats (family Molossidae) are a cosmopolitan group of communal bats characterized by a long tail extending well beyond the end of the tail membrane. Among them are the guano bats (Tadarida), which live in enormous colonies. Their excrement, called guanoguano
, dried excrement of sea birds and bats found principally on the coastal islands of Peru, Africa, Chile, and the West Indies. It contains about 6% phosphorus, 9% nitrogen, 2% potassium, and moisture. Guano is found mixed with feathers and bones and is used as a fertilizer.
..... Click the link for more information. , accumulates in great quantities in their roosting places and is commercially valuable as fertilizer. Most New World freetail bats are tropical, but several are found in the S United States. One of these, the Mexican freetail bat (Tadarida brasiliensis), is noted for its colonies in the Carlsbad Caverns of New Mexico, numbering an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 individuals. When these bats leave the caves together it takes about 20 min for the entire column to make its exit. This family also includes the mastiff bats (Eumops), largest of the North American bats, with a wingspread of 18 in. (46 cm).

Classification

Bats are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Chiroptera.

Bibliography

See R. W. Barbour and W. H. Davis, Bats of America (1969); W. A. Wimsatt, ed., Biology of Bats (2 vol., 1970); M. J. Harvey et al., Bats of the United States and Canada (2011).

What does it mean when you dream about a bat? (animal)

Bats symbolize the powers of the unknown or of the unconscious. Negatively, they can represent fear, the threatening power of the unknown, and, traditionally, death. Positively, as creatures who are quite at home in the dark, bats can also indicate the skill and knowledge to face the unknown and/or the unconsciousness.

What does it mean when you dream about a bat? (baseball, Cricket and Other Sports)

Unless one’s dream flows directly out of associations with actual games and bats—either in childhood or in the present—the usual connotations of a stick with which one hits things is that of violence and aggression, though it can sometimes represent authority. Traditional psychiatrists also view anything long and straight—especially something like a bat—as a symbol of the male principle.

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[bat] (vertebrate zoology) The common name for all members of the mammalian order Chiroptera.

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bat, 1 1. A piece of brick with one undamaged end; also called a brickbat. 2. A unit of batt insulation. 3. A piece of wood used as a brace. 4. A batten.

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bird that is the devil incarnate. [Western Folklore: Mercatante, 181]See: Demon

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symbol of good fortune; bat flesh imparts felicity. [Eastern Folklore: Mercatante, 182]See: Luck, Good

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¹1. any of various types of club with a handle, used to hit the ball in certain sports, such as cricket, baseball, or table tennis 2. a flat round club with a short handle, resembling a table-tennis bat, used by a man on the ground to guide the pilot of an aircraft when taxiing 3. Cricket short for batsman4. Austral a small board used for tossing the coins in the game of two-up 5. another word for batting6. carry one's bat Cricket (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed

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² any placental mammal of the order Chiroptera, being a nocturnal mouselike animal flying with a pair of membranous wings (patagia). The group is divided into the Megachiroptera (fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats)

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(dreams)Most bats are nocturnal predators and just thinking about these mysterious creatures gives most people an uneasy feeling (unless you are a bat lover). Bats may be considered mysterious and unpredictable. When you are interpreting this dream, look carefully at the details and your emotional reactions to the events in the dream. This dream may be related to discrete or covert behaviors. Your unconscious mind may be relating feelings to you in regard to behaviors that you or someone else prefers to keep a secret.

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noun club

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verb to open and close the eyes rapidly

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noun a drinking bout

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noun nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate

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noun (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit

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noun a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash

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noun the club used in playing cricket

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noun a club used for hitting a ball in various games

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verb strike with, or as if with a baseball bat

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verb wink briefly

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