batshit

See also: bat-shit and bat shit

English

Alternative forms

• bat shit
• bat-shit (adjective only)

Etymology

Presumably from batty (“crazy”), itself from earlier have bats in one's belfry, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Possibly influenced by or derived from apeshit, particularly in phrase go apeshit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæt.ʃɪt/

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• Hyphenation: bat‧shit

Noun

batshit (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, literally) fecal matter produced by bats
2. (slang, vulgar) nonsense, horseshit; especially when said by or attributed to someone irrational.
3. (slang, vulgar) extreme irrationality or unreasonableness, insanity, craziness.

Synonyms

• guano

Adjective

batshit (comparative more batshit, superlative most batshit)

1. (slang, vulgar) extremely irrational or unreasonable, insane, crazy.

   Don't take any courses from that professor. She's completely batshit.

   • 1995, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Casino:

     Nicky Santoro: And what the fuck are you doing on TV anyhow? You know I get calls from back home every fuckin day, they think you went batshit!

   • 2002, David Simon, The Wire, (ref):

     Those subpoenas went out today!

     The front office is gonna go batshit!

Synonyms

• batcrap
• batpoop
• crazy
• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Related terms

• apeshit
• bat
• batty
• go batshit
• shit

Translations

insane

• Dutch: knotsgek (nl)
• Finnish: sekaisin kuin seinäkello

• French: cintré (fr), cinglé (fr), zoné (fr), gelé (fr), pété par la gelée (fr)
• German: durchgeknallt (de)
• Russian: сумасше́дший (ru) (sumasšédšij), (vulgar) ёбнутый (ru) (jóbnutyj), (vulgar) ебану́тый (ru) (jebanútyj), (vulgar) пиздану́тый (pizdanútyj)

Adverb

batshit (not comparable)

1. (slang) Used as an intensifier, particularly for insane or synonyms.

   When we heard about it he went batshit nuts.

Anagrams

• Ba'thist, battish