Batmobile
verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 To move or proceed as if in the Batmobile slang
"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."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of batmobile. alt-of
- 3 To put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable. dated, slang
"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."
Example
More examples"Now where did I park the batmobile?"
Etymology
From the Batmobile driven by superhero Batman in the eponymous media franchise, from bat + -mobile. The second verb sense references the retractable shielding featured on the vehicle in the 1989 film.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.