What is "a batteries"

Usage examples of "a batteries".

An hour's panhandling, and Edward could purchase fresh double-A batteries for his Discman, then stroll to the food stands along Ventura Boulevard, where he might choose between a Black Angus hamburger, perhaps, or a came asada burrito, or Vietnamese spring rolls.

And the first, time some tech at the Augusta substation saw the power drain on his dials - ' 'You're running almost everything on C, D, and double-A batteries,' Gard said.

Little Dutch had bellied up in a nice thick place, using his radio only on alternate hours, waiting for Snake to come and fetch him while he nursed a broken leg in silent agony, and listened to the same triple-A batteries that had splashed his A-6 hammer the sky at other men trying to take out the same bridge that his own bombs had missed.