Batter or batters may refer to:

Common meanings

Batter (cooking) Batter is a flour mixture with liquid and other ingredients such as sugar, salt and leavening used for cooking. It usually contains more liquid than doughs, which are also mixtures of flour and liquid. Batters are usually a pourable consistenc ...

, thin dough that can be easily poured into a pan *

Batter (baseball) In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner, to driv ...

, person whose turn it is to face the pitcher *

Batter (cricket) In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, th ...

, a player who is currently batting *

Batter (drum) The snare (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. Snare drums are often used in ...

, a part of a snare drum * Batter (crime), unlawful physical actions to a person *

Batter (tort) At common law, battery is a tort falling under the umbrella term 'Trespass to the person'. Entailing unlawful contact which is directed and intentional, or reckless (or, in Australia, negligently) and voluntarily bringing about a harmful or offen ...

, tort of bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person *

Batter (walls) In architecture, batter is a receding slope of a wall, structure, or earthwork. A wall sloping in the opposite direction is said to ''overhang''. When used in fortifications it may be called a talus. The term is used with buildings and non-bui ...

, an intentional slope of walls or earthworks

People

* Dave Batters (1969–2009), Canadian businessman and politician, husband of Denise *

Denise Batters Denise Leanne Batters (born June 18, 1970) is a Canadian politician who has served as a senator from Saskatchewan since January 25, 2013. She was briefly ousted from the national Conservative Party of Canada caucus from November 2021 to February ...

(born 1970), Canadian politician, wife of Dave * Doris Batter (1922–2002), British sprinter * Elmer Batters (1919–1997), pioneer fetish photographer * Jeff Batters (1970–1996), professional ice hockey player

Other uses

* BATTeRS, a Japanese project to find asteroids

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