batman
noun
a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.
batmen
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pluralof batman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2014
Or so the Leicestershire batmen made it appear in managing to lose all their first innings wickets in the space of 44.3 overs.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, calls the would-be defenders "batmen" and "hoodlums."
From Time Magazine Archive
They are incarcerated in a luxurious villa, where the commandant is a former hotel manager and the guards behave like well-trained batmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Black and eight subalterns with their trusty batmen left Leven for the South and they were lost to us for a month.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by F. L. Morrison
