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batmobile

batmobile verb: to move or proceed as if in the Batmobile.

Verb (1)

batmobile (third-person singular simple present batmobiles, present participle batmobiling, simple past and past participle batmobiled)

  1. (slang) To move or proceed as if in the Batmobile
    • 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. (dated, slang) To put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable.
    • 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...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

Verb (2) capitalized: Batmobile

Batmobile (third-person singular simple present Batmobiles, present participle Batmobiling, simple past and past participle Batmobiled)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of batmobile.

Forms of batmobile

third-person singular presentbatmobiles
present participlebatmobiling
past participlebatmobiled
pastbatmobiled
alternative formBatmobile
third-person singular presentBatmobiles
present participleBatmobiling
past participleBatmobiled
pastBatmobiled

Origin of batmobile

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.

Questions about batmobile

What does batmobile mean?
Batmobile means to move or proceed as if in the Batmobile.
What part of speech is batmobile?
Batmobile is a verb.
What is the past tense of batmobile?
The past tense of batmobile is batmobiled.

Words near batmobile in the dictionary

  1. Batmanverse
  2. batmeat
  3. batmeats
  4. batmen
  5. batmitzvah
  6. batmobile
  7. batmobiled
  8. batmobiles
  9. batmobiling
  10. batn.
  11. BATNA

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: batmobile (page history and authors); Batmobile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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