Wiktionary
n. Batman, the superhero.
Usage examples of "caped crusader".
While the older cop went after her, the younger tried to oblige the near-legendary caped crusader.
He had, both as man and boy, been a huge fan of Batman, aka the Caped Crusader he suspected, in fact, that the Batman was one of the reasons he had become a cop (this was a little factoid he hadn't bothered to put on his application).
His favorite Batman accessory had not been the Batpole or the Batarang, not even the Batmobile itself, but the Caped Crusader's utility belt.
I don't care whether he's a civilian or he's the chief or he's the fucking Caped Crusader.
Seeing your first batman can do that to you, the young man had said, and once Pearson had jettisoned his initial image of the Caped Crusader swinging his way between the art-deco spires of Gotham City, he discovered that wasn't a bad term at all.