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Definition of like a bat out of hell

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Other terms relating to 'fast, quick, quickly':

Definitions include: to move very fast.
Definitions include: quickly.
Definitions include: acronym for "as soon as possible".
Definitions include: to accelerate, especially in an automobile.
Definitions include: quickly.
Definitions include: to move quickly.
Definitions include: high-performing.
Definitions include: quickly.
Definitions include: to make a process happen more quickly, often by skipping steps.
Definitions include: to kill, usually with a firearm.
Definitions include: fast.
Definitions include: quickly.
Definitions include: quickly.
Definitions include: quickly.
Definitions include: extremely fast.

Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'a':

Definitions include: amphetamine.
Definitions include: the best.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: excessive.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: In the West/Central Canadian accent, "about" is pronounced somewhere between "aboot" and "a boat".
Definitions include: a little crazy
Definitions include: an unspecified small number.
Definitions include: to play around.
Definitions include: very common.
Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate.
Definitions include: a non-specified price.
Definitions include: a non-specified price.
Definitions include: to collide with a tree.
Definitions include: an ugly face.

Other terms relating to 'bat':

Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
Definitions include: electric bass, from cricket bat.
Definitions include: to conspicuously notice.
Definitions include: to do something perfectly.
Definitions include: vagina.
Definitions include: "fat bastard".
Definitions include: to be homosexual.
Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
Definitions include: very crazy.
Definitions include: a very unattractive female.
Definitions include: a situation that's out of the ordinary.
Definitions include: to work to help a person, cause, etc.
Definitions include: to smoke marijuana with a bat, which is a small cylinder pipe.
Definitions include: a naive person
Definitions include: a small pipe that holds a single hit of a smokable drug - usually marijuana; "pinch hitter".

Other terms relating to 'hell':

Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: no chance.
Definitions include: to a great extent.
Definitions include: to a great extent.
Definitions include: never.
Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
Definitions include: to violently beat.
Definitions include: acronym for "bitch from hell".
Definitions include: general exclamation.
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.
Definitions include: acronym for "bastard operator from hell".
Definitions include: Origin: The Fly Girls.
Definitions include: no matter what.
Definitions include: to curse.

Other terms relating to 'like':

Definitions include: to act superior.
Definitions include: See act like (one's) shit doesn't stink.
Definitions include: to say, in reported speech or conversation.
Definitions include: to be present in large numbers.
Definitions include: to bleed profusely.
Definitions include: to have many children.
Definitions include: of a woman, to be well-endowed.
Definitions include: large, muscular, and strongly built.
Definitions include: to have a large penis
Definitions include: acronym for "dad I'd like to fuck".
Definitions include: acronym for "do I look like I give a shit."
Definitions include: to treat a person poorly, especially when there are witness(ed).
Definitions include: to drink alcohol to excess.
Definitions include: to die with others in a large group, usually within a short span of time.
Definitions include: This phrase means to stop something fully and finally.

Other terms relating to 'of':

Definitions include: a worthless person.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a little crazy
Definitions include: of lower than average intelligence.
Definitions include: "not all there".
Definitions include: skittish.
Definitions include: an amount of violence.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: many.
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
Definitions include: better than all that.
Definitions include: the best.

Other terms relating to 'out':

Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched.
Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use.
Definitions include: very; really; extremely.
Definitions include: to ask a person on a date.
Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
Definitions include: to defecate; "poop".
Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail.
Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch".
Definitions include: a session of getting baked (i.e. high from marijuana.)
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: See also balls to the wall.
Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury.
Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work.
Definitions include: to beat severely.
Definitions include: to beat severely.

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