blimp

UK /ˈblɪmp/ US /ˈblɪmp/
noun 6verb 2

Definitions

noun

1

An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.

2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker

2

Any large airborne inflatable.

a 6 meter high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies

3

An obese person.

4

A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.

5

A soundproof cover for a video camera.

You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]

verb

1

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.

2

To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.

noun

1

A person considered similar to Colonel Blimp in appearance, thought, or expression, particularly (historical or archaic, derogatory) a reactionary middle-class Englishman during the Interwar Period.

One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.

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