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Noun: blimp  blimp
  1. A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
    "The blimp hovered over the stadium during the football game";
    - sausage balloon, sausage
     
  2. [N. Amer, informal] An overweight or obese person
    "The cruel children called him a blimp";
    - fatso [informal], fatty [informal], fat person, roly-poly [informal], butterball [N. Amer, informal]
Noun: Blimp  blimp
Usage: Brit, informal
  1. Any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)
    - Colonel Blimp [Brit]

Derived forms: blimps

Type of: airship, dirigible [N. Amer], extreme right-winger, large person, reactionary, ultraconservative

Encyclopedia: Blimp