blimp

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  1. noun A nonrigid, buoyant airship.
  2. noun Slang An obese person.
  3. intransitive verb Slang To become very fat. Often used with out: He's really blimped out since he got that desk job.

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  • Tholan was paying enough for me to pay off all I owed on my blimp, and prevent a particular shark from paying me a visit to collect interest by way of involuntarily donated organs. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • I looked up at my blimp, and considered the prospect of escaping this trio and bedding down for the night. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • I glanced up, saw that the blimp was drifting sideways toward the mount. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Other witnesses in similar sightings have suggested that apparently inexplicable objects were weather balloons or the Goodyear blimp, anything, in fact, but a UFO. —  Omni: April 1995
  • The blimp, which is loaned to Weigle and other researchers by Florida's Sea World, is proving an extraordinary tool in this effort. —  Omni: October 1993
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