Noun: blimp blimp
Usage: Brit, informal
- 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
- [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]
Usage: Brit, informal
- 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