blimp
see also: Blimp
Pronunciation Noun
Blimp
Noun
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see also: Blimp
Pronunciation Noun
blimp (plural blimps)
- An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
- 2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker:
- The Goodyear blimp over Giants Stadium
- 2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker:
- (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
- 2018 July 14, Trump baby balloon: giant blimp takes to the sky above Edinburgh after being transported from London ↗, Evening Standard:
- a 6 meter high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies
- 2018 July 14, Trump baby balloon: giant blimp takes to the sky above Edinburgh after being transported from London ↗, Evening Standard:
- (slang) An obese person.
- A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
- French: ballon dirigeable, dirigeable
- German: Zeppelin i normal; Prallluftschiff i technical, officialese, Blimp (colloquial)
- Italian: dirigibile floscio
- Portuguese: dirigível
- Russian: мя́гкий дирижа́бль
- Spanish: dirigible
- German: Fettsack
blimp (blimps, present participle blimping; past and past participle blimped)
- (slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
- After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.
- Over a few years the software had blimped into typical bloatware.
- blimp out
- blimp up
Blimp
Noun
blimp (plural blimps)
- A military middle class Englishman intolerant of others’ ideas.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
- One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
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