blimp

noun

/blɪmp/

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(especially North American English) a small airship (= an aircraft without wings)
(also Colonel Blimp)
(British English, old-fashioned, disapproving) an older person, especially an old army officer, with very old-fashioned political opinionsTopics Personal qualitiesc2

Word OriginFirst World War (in sense (1)): of uncertain origin. Sense (2) derives from the character invented by cartoonist David Low, used in anti-German or anti-government drawings before and during the Second World War.

单词	blimp
释义	blimp noun /blɪmp/ /blɪmp/ jump to other results (especially North American English) a small airship (= an aircraft without wings) (also Colonel Blimp) (British English, old-fashioned, disapproving) an older person, especially an old army officer, with very old-fashioned political opinionsTopics Personal qualitiesc2 Word OriginFirst World War (in sense (1)): of uncertain origin. Sense (2) derives from the character invented by cartoonist David Low, used in anti-German or anti-government drawings before and during the Second World War.
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