Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A nonrigid, buoyant airship.
- n. Slang An obese person.
- v. Slang To become very fat. Often used with out: He's really blimped out since he got that desk job.
Wiktionary
- n. An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
- n. slang An obese person.
- n. A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
- v. To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. any elderly pompous reactionary.
- n. a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)
- n. a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
Etymologies
- Perhaps from limp. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Adway tried to see through the smoke and debris, “The blimp is gone.””
“Perhaps propelled by the recent dawn of solar powered airplanes, this stunning solar powered blimp is poised to take flight by harnessing sunlight for fuel.”
“This 246-foot-long Zeppelin, 50 feet longer than the Goodyear blimp, is capable of carrying up to 12 passengers and will be available for aerial tours of the San Francisco Bay Area.”
“Ironically, when we came back down to Sugarloaf Key yesterday, we picked a campground from which the blimp is clearly visible.”
“The Sky Yacht personal blimp is a cross between a zeppelin and a hot-air balloon that claims to combine the best of both in a highly steerable vehicle that doesn't require large ground crews.”
“A blimp is a non-rigid airship or steerable balloon with no internal support or framework.”
“The shape of the blimp is formed by the pressure of the internal lifting gas.”
“The cabin of the blimp is called a gondola and holds up to eight passengers.”
“The fabric shell of a blimp is called an envelope.”
“No, the blimp is not controlled from a device on the ground.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blimp’.
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 130 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
BIG Words
Awesome words that just mean "BIG"
gargantuan, massive, behemoth, colossal, mammoth, monumental, leviathan, immense, enormous, elephantine, astronomical, whopping and 18 more...
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Film and Cinematography
A list of terms used in cinematography
anamorphic, a and b rolls, academy aperture, academy leader, answer print, married print, filmography, apple box, aspect ratio, backwind, camera-stylo, barndoors and 53 more...
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Here Comes Almost Everybody
words of what happens when one is left behind.
reference to Joyce's Book of the Dark (a dissecting of Finnegan's Wake)enervated, unnerved, vitiated, thinned, enfeebled, gone to seed, pilfered, quaff, plaque, antithesis, blimp, listless and 7 more...
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My Favorites
peanut, chipmunk, pearl, blueberry, graceful, poof, scrumptious, corny, scrambled, blimp, classy, butterfly and 1 more...
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Audio Argot
Inspired by the Audio Cyclopedia, by Howard M. Tremaine
scoring stage, anechoic, selsyn-interlock ..., lavalier, duller, mutual conductance, negative feedback, tangent error, Barkhausen noise, blimp, flutter meter, tweeter and 16 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for blimp.
john “18.182 What is a blimp?—A sound deadening cover placed over a motion picture camera on a motion picture set to prevent the noise of the camera movement from being picked up by the microphone.”
Audio Cyclopedia by Howard M. Tremaine, Howard W. Sams & Co., 1969, pg. 956 Feb 4, 2010
bilby "The folks at Turtle Airships don’t like calling their aircraft a blimp: 'It is a rigid shelled, amphibious, solar powered, all weather, FAST aircraft that is lifted by helium, but it is not a blimp.'"
- Bryan Nelson, Solar Blimp to Fly from NYC to Paris, Rests on Land or Water, cleantechnica.com, 28 July 2009. Aug 4, 2009
hernesheir (n): in cinematography, a fiberglass housing used to encase a noisy camera to make it suitable for syncronized sound filming.
Jan 17, 2009
reesetee Back atcha. :-) Oct 16, 2007
skipvia Wow! I didn't think anyone would get this one. My virtual fedora is tipped to you, reesetee. Oct 16, 2007
reesetee Captain Beefheart!
The mother ship the mother ship
The mother ship's the one Oct 16, 2007
skipvia Can't encounter this word without thinking about this one:
"Look up in the sky there's uh dirigible there!
The drazy hoops whir!
You can see them just as they were.
All the people stir
'n the girls' knees trembles
'n run 'n wave their hands
'n run their hands over the blimp the blimp.
Daughter don't yuh dare
Oh momma who cares?
It's the blimp, it's the blimp!" Oct 16, 2007
chained_bear I cannot believe this isn't already on one of my lists. Oct 16, 2007