BAT
n.— «Others are crammed into BATs (the soldiers’ acronym for Big-Assed Tents) where a couple hundred of them sleep in bunk beds and have no space at all.» —“Assignment: Kandahar” by Les Perreaux London Free Press (Ontario, Canada) Mar. 6, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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