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BLIMP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

Synonyms:

blimp; sausage; sausage balloon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("blimp" is a kind of...):

airship; dirigible (a steerable self-propelled aircraft)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)

Synonyms:

Blimp; Colonel Blimp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Blimp" is a kind of...):

extreme right-winger; reactionary; ultraconservative (an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

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