"bataca" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Spanish batacazo",
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  "etymology_text": "The word \"Bataca\" was registered as a trademark in 1967. Over time it became a generic trademark. The word is derived from Spanish batacazo.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "batacas",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "bataca fight"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, Bill W. Hillman, Teaching With Confidence: How to Get Off the Classroom Wall, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, →ISBN, page 205:",
          "text": "When engaged in a fantasy monologue, the teacher who is experiencing angry conflict with a student will need a soft chair or bed and a bataca (which is a stick with heavy padding on it) or simply a newspaper that has been tightly rolled.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Jurg Siegfried, Therapeutic and Everyday Discourse as Behavior Change: Towards a Micro-analysis in Psychotherapy Process Research, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 178:",
          "text": "She agreed, and the therapist instructed her on how to start by demonstrating how to use a bataca (padded bat) to release the anger physically. As he demonstrated the use of the bataca, the subject recoiled and revealed to him that she had been hit and physically abused by her ex-husband.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Eric Morris, The Diary of a Professional Experiencer: An Autobiographical Journey Into the Evolution of an Acting System, SCB Distributors, →ISBN, page 469:",
          "text": "For about a year or so, I even used batacas, so that the actors could vent anger, frustration, and hostility. A bataca was a round, heavily padded instrument with a handle, with which two actors would beat each other.",
          "type": "quote"
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      "glosses": [
        "bat or club with heavy padding for sparring or therapeutic use without causing injury"
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        {
          "word": "bataca bat"
        },
        {
          "word": "Bataca bat"
        },
        {
          "word": "Bataca"
        },
        {
          "word": "bataka"
        }
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  "word": "bataca"
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  "etymology_text": "The word \"Bataca\" was registered as a trademark in 1967. Over time it became a generic trademark. The word is derived from Spanish batacazo.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "batacas",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, Bill W. Hillman, Teaching With Confidence: How to Get Off the Classroom Wall, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, →ISBN, page 205:",
          "text": "When engaged in a fantasy monologue, the teacher who is experiencing angry conflict with a student will need a soft chair or bed and a bataca (which is a stick with heavy padding on it) or simply a newspaper that has been tightly rolled.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Jurg Siegfried, Therapeutic and Everyday Discourse as Behavior Change: Towards a Micro-analysis in Psychotherapy Process Research, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 178:",
          "text": "She agreed, and the therapist instructed her on how to start by demonstrating how to use a bataca (padded bat) to release the anger physically. As he demonstrated the use of the bataca, the subject recoiled and revealed to him that she had been hit and physically abused by her ex-husband.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Eric Morris, The Diary of a Professional Experiencer: An Autobiographical Journey Into the Evolution of an Acting System, SCB Distributors, →ISBN, page 469:",
          "text": "For about a year or so, I even used batacas, so that the actors could vent anger, frustration, and hostility. A bataca was a round, heavily padded instrument with a handle, with which two actors would beat each other.",
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    {
      "word": "Bataca bat"
    },
    {
      "word": "Bataca"
    },
    {
      "word": "bataka"
    }
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  "word": "bataca"
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