batmobile
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable.
Dated; Slang
verb
Alternative letter-case form of batmobile.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Batman and Robin, the dynamic duo, come batmobiling right out of the old comic strip into a toy gift set for youngsters."
- "To be sure, DC Comics' Caped Crusader wasn't Batmobiling off the newsstands in the psychedelic '60s; […]"
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."