Definition of go to bat for (one)
go to bat for (one) 
verb
- to work to help a person, cause, etc.
Citation from "Quid Pro Quo", Terriers (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 12 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to help.
Last edited on Dec 01 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 01 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'to help': | |
| Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute to a group cause. | |
| Definitions include: to suffer a task or experience in order to shield other members of some group from the displeasure; "take one for the team". | |
| Definitions include: to applaud. | |
| Definitions include: to do a solid (a favor). | |
| Definitions include: to look out for one's interests or well-being. | |
| Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
Other terms relating to 'bat': | |
| Definitions include: electric bass, from cricket bat. | |
| Definitions include: to conspicuously notice. | |
| Definitions include: to do something perfectly. | |
| Definitions include: vagina. | |
| Definitions include: to be homosexual. | |
| Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils. | |
| Definitions include: A very unattractive female. | |
| Definitions include: a situation that's out of the ordinary. | |
| Definitions include: to smoke marijuana with a bat, which is a small cylinder pipe. | |
| Definitions include: quickly. | |
| Definitions include: a naive person | |
| Definitions include: a small pipe that holds a single hit of a smokable drug - usually marijuana; "pinch hitter". | |
| Definitions include: A figurative device used in the creation of a porn face. | |
| Definitions include: A response to something that is a good deal. | |
Other terms relating to 'for': | |
| Definitions include: taking a passive role. | |
| Definitions include: return on one's money spent. | |
| Definitions include: to be homosexual. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "best friend(s) for life". | |
| Definitions include: a phrase used in reference to someone under the influence of opiates who keeps nodding off with their mouth open, as it resembles performing fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: so compatible that even the known bugs of product A were replicated in the "bug-for-bug compatible" product B. | |
| Definitions include: British expression meaning that the speaker doesn't want to do something. | |
| Definitions include: to be excited about. | |
| Definitions include: The act of vomiting. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit (noisily). | |
| Definitions include: the person is going to be in trouble. | |
| Definitions include: crazy. | |
| Definitions include: fat. | |
| Definitions include: able to handle or tolerate. | |
| Definitions include: to perform varicose vein surgery. | |
Other terms relating to 'go': | |
| Definitions include: completely ready. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "best friends forever who eat out and go shopping a lot". | |
| Definitions include: used to tell someone to stop messing with people. | |
| Definitions include: excited and ready to start. | |
| Definitions include: From the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "got to go". | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "goes away from keyboard". | |
| Definitions include: "goes in to". | |
| Definitions include: the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: to get a person excited. | |
| Definitions include: to move one's legs. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "go fuck yourself". | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "go fuck yourself." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "good game." | |
| Definitions include: to say. | |
Other terms relating to 'to': | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: See nine to five. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority. | |
| Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: to revisit one's past. | |
| Definitions include: to go back to the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: extreme; "all out". | |
| Definitions include: to be vastly superior. | |
| Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else. | |
| Definitions include: to be unintelligible. | |
| Definitions include: to do. | |
| Definitions include: more important things to deal with. | |
| Definitions include: to kill or destroy. | |
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