Batmobiled vs Batmobiles - What's the difference?
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(batmobile)
(slang) To proceed in a fast, urgent, or reckless way, especially in a vehicle.
* {{quote-news
, date = 2001-06-08
, first = Raoul
, last = Hernandez
, url = http://www.austinchronicle.com/books/2001-06-08/81974/
, title = Uncle Blubbafink
, newspaper = Austin Chronicle
, issn = 1074-0740
, passage = As its narrator dulcets his best Boris Karloff -- Frank interpreted as Jimmy Durante voiced by Buddy Hackett -- this two-and-a-half minute "work in progress" roars to life with its star Batmobiling it down to the danceteria on a twangy crest of Shadowy Men From a Shadowy Planet surftones.
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(slang) To put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable.
* {{quote-news
, date = 1999-08-06
, first = Peter
, last = Bradshaw
, authorlink = Peter Bradshaw
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/1999/aug/06/4
, title = Sex in the windy city
, newspaper = The Guardian
, issn = 0261-3077
, passage = 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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