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English
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.[1][2][3]
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Verb
batmobile (third-person singular simple present batmobiles, present participle batmobiling, simple past and past participle batmobiled)
- (slang) To move or proceed as if in the Batmobile
1966 July 10, George A. Woods, “Pow! Zowie! Zap! It's Batman”, in The New York Times:We knew they were coming to children's records. It was only a matter of time before Bruce Wain and Dick Grayson would come Batmobiling off the turntable.
2000 June 16, Ken Tucker, “Caped Fears”, in Entertainment Weekly:To be sure, DC Comics' Caped Crusader wasn't Batmobiling off the newsstands in the psychedelic '60s; […]
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- (dated slang) To put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable.
1997 June 8, James Coates, “Generica, Semisweet Land Of Jitterati”, in Chicago Tribune: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.
1998, Linda Jaivin, Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space, page 243: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.
1999 August 6, Peter Bradshaw, “Sex in the windy city”, in The Guardian: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.
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