balloon
1570, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone from palla ("ball"), from lng *palla. Pronunciation Noun
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1570, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone from palla ("ball"), from lng *palla. Pronunciation Noun
balloon (plural balloons)
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
- (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- A speech bubble.
- A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
- (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
- the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
- (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
- (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
- (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- (slang) A woman's breast.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:breasts
- (slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- 2016, David Cornwell, Like it Matters
- And all I had to do in return was take a drive up to Ricardo's place on the way home and then a pretty edgy one back to Rondebosch with a balloon of coke sandwiched between two pairs of underpants.
- 2016, David Cornwell, Like it Matters
- (finance) Synonym of balloon payment#English|balloon payment
- 1986, James M. Johnson, Fundamentals of finance for equipment lessors
- The purpose of the balloon is to reduce the periodic payment required during the life of the financing period.
- 1986, James M. Johnson, Fundamentals of finance for equipment lessors
- (inflatable object)
- (child’s toy) toy balloon
- (in medicine)
- (speech bubble) speech bubble, fumetto
- French: ballon
- German: Ballon, Luftballon
- Portuguese: balão, bexiga
- Russian: возду́шный шар
- Spanish: globo, vejiga (El Salvador)
- French: ballon, ballon de baudruche, ballon en baudruche, ballon gonflable
- German: Ballon, Luftballon
- Italian: palloncino
- Portuguese: balão
- Russian: возду́шный шар
- Spanish: globo, bomba (Colombia, Venezuela), chimbomba (Nicaragua)
- French: montgolfière, ballon
- German: Heißluftballon
- Portuguese: balão
- Russian: аэроста́т
- German: Ballon
- Russian: балло́н
balloon (balloons, present participle ballooning; past and past participle ballooned)
- (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
- His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
- Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
- (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Peach Scanties,"
- A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Peach Scanties,"
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- 2015, Steve Wilson, A View From The Terraces (part 2, page 138)
- After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out.
- 2015, Steve Wilson, A View From The Terraces (part 2, page 138)
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