In the British armed forces, an officer's batman is his personal servant. a popular character in cartoon strips, films, and television programmes, who wears a black cape and a black mask, and fights criminals. batmen an officer's personal servant in the British army
A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds