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blimp (blimp)

noun

  1. a nonrigid or semirigid airship

  2. Etymology: after Col. Blimp, creation of Sir David Low

    a pompous, smug, highly conservative person

Etymology: echoic of sound caused by thumping the airship bag with a finger: prob. coined (1915) by A. D. Cunningham, Brit Navy Air Force

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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