English

Noun

Blimp ‎(plural Blimps)

1. A military middle class Englishman intolerant of others’ ideas.
   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn

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

English

Noun

blimp ‎(plural blimps)

1. An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
   • 2004, The New Yorker, 16 & 23 Feb 2004

     The Goodyear blimp over Giants Stadium

2. (slang) An obese person.
3. A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.

Synonyms

• barrage balloon
• Gossage

Derived terms

• Blimp
• blimpish

Translations

Verb

blimp ‎(third-person singular simple present blimps, present participle blimping, simple past and past participle blimped)

1. (slang, intransitive) 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.

Synonyms

• blimp out
• blimp up

Translations

See also

• airship
• balloon
• dirigible
• zeppelin, Zeppelin