Citations:Batman

English citations of Batman

noun: superhero

• 1989, The Bulletin

  “And then we disappeared again,” Peters says. “Vanished. Like Batman.” Warners planned no more TV advertising until the week before the opening. "There's a fine line that you have to be careful not to cross,” Warners' Rob Friedman says.

• 2001, Greg Moody, Deadroll: A Cycling Murder Mystery, Velopress (→ISBN):

  The equipment he carried in his Batman-like utility belt jingled and shook with each step.

• 2012, John Verdon, Let the Devil Sleep, Crown Pub (→ISBN), page 383:

  “A split second before you get your head blown off, I drop out of the sky to save you, like fucking Batman?” “No.” “No?” “I save myself. Or I don't.” “What are you, a one-man army?” “It's too damn iffy for anyone else to be involved.”

• 2014, Anthony Daly, Dalo: The Autobiography, Random House (→ISBN), page 123:

  You could be on run number twenty and next thing the fucker would leap out of the trees like Batman – after sitting out the previous five – and bomb ahead of you.

• 2017, Clare Furniss, How Not to Disappear, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 163:

  I try to picture Dad as a teenager, on a bicycle wearng […] one of those black academic gowns that make you look like Batman. But I can barely even remember him as he was when I was a kid.

• 2018, Jackie Ashenden, Total Control, Kensington Books (→ISBN)

  "And you already know why I'm following you otherwise you wouldn't have bothered making like fucking Batman and coming to skulk down the back of this alley."

verb

• 2017, Randall A. Wells, Angel in Goggles: Earthly Scriptures, →ISBN:

  Then I hopped to a little terrace by our pal's room and the kitchen. Opened a window, failed to stifle a laugh at Tom, Batmanned back.