English Explanatory Dictionary

Bat-Signal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A thing which serves to attract or summon something.

Word forms

Bat-Signal Bat-Signals Bat Signal

Etymology

From Bat- + signal: the extended (general) sense comes from the Bat-Signal, a searchlight-based distress signal in the DC Universe, used by Gotham City police to summon the superhero Batman.

Related words

🦇 bat-phone dog whistle
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on B Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary