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Adjective: "(slang) too irrational to be dealt with sanely"
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- 1995 — Terry Sanderson, Mediawatch: The Treatment of Male and Female Homosexuality in the British Media, Cassell (1995), →ISBN, page 80 (quoting Brian Hitchen of the UK The Daily Star):
- Black dolls are outlawed by muddle heads who see nothing wrong in smoking dope but go batcrap over golliwogs.
- 1996 — Gus Lee, Tiger's Tail, Ballantine Books (1996), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- "He kept dialing. I took it. He went batcrap so I stuck a grenade in his shirt. Cops took him in custody."
- 2007 — The Comics Journal, Issues 280-283, page 89:
- What I like is a certain ambiguity in a story, but I've come to understand over the years that that drives most people absolutely batcrap!
Adverb: "(slang) used as an intensifier, particularly for insane or synonyms"
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- 2009 — Caitlin Kittredge, Second Skin, St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 81:
- "If that guy was batcrap crazy and he called me about it, yeah."
- 2010 — Kate Brian, Pure Sin, Simon & Schuster (2010), →ISBN, page 162:
- Of course, with Landon it's the private and public personas rather than the sane and the batcrap crazy, but it still would've worked."
- 2011 — Gary Paulsen, Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception, Wendy Lamb Books (2011), →ISBN, page 56:
- That kind of behavior made me more certain than ever that, once he was pushed to batcrap-crazy extremes, he'd be forced to see the depth of his obsessions, and then he'd start to develop a more realistic perspective on the whole health nut thing.
- 2012 — Kathryn E. Brown, Kat Tales: Stories of a House Broken, AuthorHouse (2012), →ISBN, page 85:
- But screaming that you have no weapon is a most certain way to make your husband batcrap crazy.
Noun: "(slang) nonsense, hogwash"
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- 1968 — Katharine Topkins & Richard Topkins, Passing Go, Little, Brown and Company (1968), page 86:
- The seminal concept, as Ted Grosvenor used to say (he loved that kind of batcrap, which was part of the reason he never turned in a profit),
- 1968 — Leslie Waller, The Family, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 315:
- "God, that is such… such batcrap!" Edith exploded.
- 1995 — Renee M. Charles, "Cinnamon Roses", in Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Erotica (ed. Pam Keesey), Cleis Press (1995), →ISBN, page 97:
- I don't know if it's because people buy so heavily into the mythos of vampirism (y'know, the gal/guy-in-a-sweeping-cape-swooping-down-on-her/his-prey's lily-white, blue-veined throat batcrap),
- 2009 — Clark Jacob Hafen, Tempest in a Teacup, iUniverse (2009), →ISBN, page 99:
- "Batcrap. Jo was always wild."