baton

Examples

• All

• I love it when you twirl your baton.

  Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

• During the 1930s and 1940s, baton twirling grew increasingly popular, and "pretty girls with flashing batons" decorated the playing fields.

  Academic text (1993)

• Well, it would be kind of hard without my baton.

  The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)

• So is she going to do baton twirling with you?

  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

• After a moment, Austin returns from around the corner with a baton, followed by a marching band.

  Fiction book (1997)

• His feet moved in a modified jazz square, while he twirled and tossed his baton into the air.

  Academic text (1996)

• After Thursday's band practice, Mason, carrying his whistle and his baton, is the last one to desert the field.

  Fiction book (1995)

• During the late forties, when I was about three years old, she began to teach dancing and baton twirling.

  Academic text (1998)

• Next up is Janet Piccolo who will twirl her baton... ...to the stirring "Stars and Stripes Forever."

  That's What I Am (2011)

• The parade incorporated troupes of baton-twirling girls and bands of schoolchildren, many of whom had performed the previous day during the Children's Parade.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

W

wand

vsbaton

3 4.6

A thin stick a conductor uses to lead an orchestra

is carried and twirled by marching performers to add visual flair and timing

Idioms

P

to pass the baton

• Informal

1 3.5

To give responsibility or control to another person during a planned change

Compounds

B

baton twirler

1 6.5

A person who spins a thin stick and does tricks in parades or shows

S

stun baton

1 8.2

A long stick that gives a short electric shock to stop someone temporarily

B

Baton Rouge Bridge

3.7

A bridge that crosses the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Surface Forms

Etymology