batshit
batshit Lexical Profile
batshit Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
(vulgar slang) Completely crazy, insane, irrational, or eccentric.
"The director's latest film is an entertainingly batshit blend of science fiction and musical comedy."
• adverb
(vulgar slang) To an extreme or irrational degree (used chiefly as an intensifier before 'crazy' or 'insane').
"Everyone thought he had gone batshit crazy when he quit his lucrative job on a whim."
• noun
(vulgar) The excrement of bats (guano); figuratively in slang, foolishness or nonsense.
"The floor of the limestone cavern was covered in a thick layer of batshit."
Word Nuance & Usage
Because 'batshit' incorporates a vulgar profanity, it is restricted to informal, colloquial, or slang registers and should be avoided in formal or professional communication.
• Rhymes for batshit
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in mid-20th-century American slang (originally military slang), combining the older expression 'bats in the belfry' (meaning eccentric or crazy) with the vulgar intensifier 'shit'.