Citations:batsicle

English citations of batsicle

Noun: "(informal, humorous) a cold or frozen bat"

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• 1995, R. L. Stine, Give Yourself Goosebumps: Trapped in Bat Wing Hall, unnumbered page:

  But there's no answer. Marcie won't let you out, you realize, until you're frozen solid.

  Too bad, but you made the wrong choice. And it looks as if you'll end this adventure as a batsicle!

• 2009, Tim Downs, Ends of the Earth, pages 275-276:

  […] They had to drop the bats from high altitudes to keep the bombers from getting shot down, and at those altitudes the bats froze solid and dropped like chunks of ice. What a way to die—clunked on the head by a frozen batsicle."

• 2017, "Strange but True!", Xplor, January/February 2017, page 17:

  Most Eastern Red Bats migrate south to avoid winter weather. But some red bats stick around. They keep from becoming batsicles by sleeping under dead leaves on the forest floor when temperatures fall below freezing.

Noun: "(informal, humorous) a cold or frozen baseball bat"

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• 2010, Dan Epstein, Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s, Thomas Dunne Books (2010), →ISBN, page 199:

  […] Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles even had to place a hot water bottle on his Louisville Slugger to keep it from turning into a batsicle.

Noun: "(informal, humorous) a cold or frozen old woman"

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• 1995, John Sanford, Night Prey, pages 382-383:

  "They ran the air conditioner after he pulled the tubes, I bet," Lucas said.

  "Yeah. They said they were testing it," the kid said.

  "Kiss my ass," said Greave, a sudden light in his eye. "They froze the old bat. A batsicle."