blimp

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Airblimpblimp /blɪmp/ noun [countable] 1 TTAa small airship (=type of aircraft without wings)2 American English spoken not polite an offensive word for a very fat personExamples from the Corpusblimp• Even American Blimp Corp. needs ground crews of seven to land its smallest blimp, and more for larger blimps.• It is drawbacks like these that have kept blimps from catching on as anything but lovable advertising novelties.• That means no blimp, plane or helicopter goes anywhere in the area without air-traffic controllers' approval.• The blue-rinsed dame and the bottle-nosed blimp are extinct species here.• The Gollancz scandal, as the blimps thought of it, was widely known.• But the Navy did manage to get some mileage out of the blimp, at one point running a fleet of 119.Related topics: PoliticsBlimpBlimp (also Colonel Blimp) noun [countable] British English PPsomeone, especially an old man, with old-fashioned political ideas – used to show disapproval —Blimpish adjectiveOrigin blimp (1900-2000) Perhaps from 'Type B-limp', official name given to an airship without an inner frame Blimp (1900-2000) Colonel Blimp, a cartoon character invented by David Low

单词	blimp
释义	blimp From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Airblimpblimp /blɪmp/ noun [countable] 1 TTAa small airship (=type of aircraft without wings)2 American English spoken not polite an offensive word for a very fat personExamples from the Corpusblimp• Even American Blimp Corp. needs ground crews of seven to land its smallest blimp, and more for larger blimps.• It is drawbacks like these that have kept blimps from catching on as anything but lovable advertising novelties.• That means no blimp, plane or helicopter goes anywhere in the area without air-traffic controllers' approval.• The blue-rinsed dame and the bottle-nosed blimp are extinct species here.• The Gollancz scandal, as the blimps thought of it, was widely known.• But the Navy did manage to get some mileage out of the blimp, at one point running a fleet of 119.Related topics: PoliticsBlimpBlimp (also Colonel Blimp) noun [countable] British English PPsomeone, especially an old man, with old-fashioned political ideas – used to show disapproval —Blimpish adjectiveOrigin blimp (1900-2000) Perhaps from 'Type B-limp', official name given to an airship without an inner frame Blimp (1900-2000) Colonel Blimp, a cartoon character invented by David Low
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