batmobile

present singular third person batmobiles · participle present batmobiling · participle past batmobiled · past batmobiled · alternative Batmobile

1. slangTo move or proceed as if in the Batmobile

   To be sure, DC Comics' Caped Crusader wasn't Batmobiling off the newsstands in the psychedelic '60s; […]

   2000 June 16, Ken Tucker, “Caped Fears”, in Entertainment Weekly

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   We knew they were coming to children's records. It was only a matter of time before Bruce Wain^([sic]) and Dick Grayson would come Batmobiling off the turntable.

   1966 July 10, George A. Woods, “Pow! Zowie! Zap! It's Batman”, in The New York Times

   Batman and Robin, the dynamic duo, come batmobiling right out of the old comic strip into a toy gift set for youngsters.

   1975 December, Maureen Smith, “Tinkertoys and Teddybears and Other Old Favorites”, in McCall's, page 9

2. datedslangTo put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable.

   Meredith (Gillian Anderson) is a frosty, uptight theatre director being romanced by an architect (John Stewart), but she is, as we say in the 90s, batmobiling - her defences are up.

   1999 August 6, Peter Bradshaw, “Sex in the windy city”, in The Guardian

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   Genericans live on fast food bought with $20 bills (Yuppie food coupons) taken out of automatic teller machines. They tend to be young men and women prone to batmobiling, defined as "putting up protective emotional shields just as a relationship enters an intimate vulnerable stage," like the steel plates that cloak Batman's car.

   1997 June 8, James Coates, “Generica, Semisweet Land Of Jitterati”, in Chicago Tribune

   Baby's antennae stood straight up. She tried to read him but Jake was too quick for her. He was batmobiling. His deflector screens had shot up—he was an emotional escape vehicle, complete with tinted windows. Bullet-proof, bomb-proof, utterly impenetrable.

   1998, Linda Jaivin, Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space, page 243

present singular third person Batmobiles · participle present Batmobiling · participle past Batmobiled · past Batmobiled

1. Alternative letter-case form of batmobile.