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adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
originFrom bat + -y. In sense “insane”, attested 1903, from expression have bats in one's belfry, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Compare also batshit (“insane”) and squirrelly (“jumpy, eccentric”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0