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blimp

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Noun

  1. An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
  2. Any large airborne inflatable.
  3. An obese person.
  4. A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
  5. A soundproof cover for a video camera.
  6. A person considered similar to Colonel Blimp in appearance, thought, or expression, particularly (historical or archaic, derogatory) a reactionary middle-class Englishman during the Interwar Period.

Verb

  1. To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
  2. To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.

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