Bats
Bats adjective - Having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind.
Poles
Both words in one sentence
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Weapons tend to be long and blunt (bats, planks, poles, etc) rather than bladed, especially in comedies and light dramas.
Source: Japanese Delinquents -
On the way to confront Woo-jin, Oh Dae-su meets a corridor filled with over two dozen mooks armed with almost every simplistic melee weapon under the sun, including metal poles, baseball bats, chunks of 2x4, and knives.
Source: When All You Have Is a Hammer - In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Bats could come at you when you were JUMPING FROM LADDERS TO SWINGING POLES several hundred feet above the ground, and if they are touching you for more then a second, you will fall to your death.
Source: Demonic Spiders / Hack and Slash
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