Definition of "batter" in English

verb

1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

   • The firemen battered down the door.

2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

   • I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.

3. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

   • Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.

4. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.

   • That cocktail will batter you!
   • I was battered last night on our pub crawl.

5. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

6. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.

noun

1. (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.

   • To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.

2. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.

   • When he went on a batter, he became very violent.

3. A paste of clay or loam.

4. (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

verb

1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

noun

1. (architecture) An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

noun

1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

   • The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.

2. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.

3. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.

4. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.