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Noun: blimp  blimp
  1. A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
    - sausage balloon, sausage
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, reactionary, ultraconservative

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