batso

batso
adj
British
crazy.
The word, used typically by mid-dle-class schoolchildren and adults, is an elaboration of the colloquial 'bats' or 'batty', both based on the older expres-sion 'to have bats in one's belfry'.
► 'It seemed to me to be a completely batso idea.' (Recorded, London journalist, February 1995)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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