1966, George A. Woods, "Pow! Zowie! Zap! It's Batman", The New York Times, 10 July 1966:
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.
1975, Maureen Smith, "Tinkertoys and Teddybears and Other Old Favorites", McCall's, December 1975, page 9:
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; […]
2001, Raoul Hernandez, "Uncle Blubbafink", Austin Chronicle, 8 June 2001:
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.
2005, Jamie Fristrom, "The 'You Win' Button", GameDevBlog (blog), 4 September 2005:
(Except I'd make it a seamless, continuous world, of course, so you could go back and forth from Batmobiling to action/adventuring at will...)
Verb: "(dated slang) to put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable"[edit]
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.
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.
I love you. I love you. I love you. No, just kidding. I’m not even going to call. Talk about your Batmobiling and your general lack of commitment.
2004, Paul McFedries, Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture, Random House (2004), →ISBN, page 204:
In a world of fleshmeets and face time where you Google someone you've met with your love beeper in the hope that he doesn't turn out to be a batmobiling toxic bachelor or himbo who's a bad-breaker-upper, it's amazing that anyone gets together, much less gets married.
(While it seems incredible today, for most of history the Muslims were the good guys – for around a thousand years Islam was a tolerant, diverse system that celebrated science, mathematics, and discovery. How far they have fallen, in less than a century… and, uncomfortably, it’s all Europe’s fault. After being attacked by uncivilised savages of medieaval Europe, Islam started Batmobiling, and hasn’t come out of its shell since.)
1996, Betty Waterton, Quincy Rumpel and the All-Day Breakfest, Groundwood Books (1996), →ISBN, page 83:
Having declined a game of horseshoes, the four Bagels moved out to the verandah to play Scrabble among themselves, under the watchful eyes of Leah and Quincy.
"Would you look at that," whispered Quincy. "Justin is trying to use batmobiling, and they're letting him get away with it!"