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blimp
(blɪmp)
Word forms: plural blimps
countable noun
A blimp is the same as an airship.
blimp in British English 1
(blɪmp)
noun
1.
a small nonrigid airship, esp one used for observation or as a barrage balloon
2. cinema
a soundproof cover fixed over a camera during shooting
Word origin
C20: probably from (type) B-limpblimp in British English 2
(blɪmp)
noun
(often capital) mainly British
a person, esp a military officer, who is stupidly complacent and reactionary
Also called: Colonel Blimp Word origin
C20: after a character created by Sir David Low (1891–1963), New Zealand-born Britishpolitical cartoonistblimp in American English
(blɪmp)
noun Informal
1.
a nonrigid or semirigid airship
2.
a pompous, smug, highly conservative person
Derived forms
blimpish (ˈblimpish) adjective
Word origin
echoic of sound caused by thumping the airship bag with a finger: prob. coined (1915)by A. D. Cunningham, Brit Navy Air Force; (sense 2) after Col. Blimp, creation of Low (sense 1)Image ofblimp
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