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US
/ˈbɫɪmp/
]
[ UK /blˈɪmp/ ]
[ UK /blˈɪmp/ ]
NOUN
- any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)
How To Use Blimp In A Sentence
- In his mind, he blasted six large holes in the blimp's gas cells.
- Kahit na blimps ay mabagal, carry maliit na timbang, at nangangailangan ng malaking hangars sa bahay ang mga ito, ang isang kumpanya ng Aleman ay magkaroon ng isang ahas-tanga tulad ng disenyo na overcomes ang ilan sa mga shortcomings upang magbigay ng isang bapor sa hangin pangangasiwa na maaaring manatili aloft para sa araw. Ideonexus.com »2,009» Disyembre
- He pointed to a dun lionhead that lumbered peaceful as a blimp.
- Our home base was a huge glowing translucent submarine, shaped like a blimp.
- Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's inspired idea was to make airships rigid, so superseding the early blimps, which were fatally vulnerable to leaks from the inflammable hydrogen used to inflate them.
- Sources in the Special Anti-Crime Unit said it was intelligence gathered from the blimp airship which informed yesterday's historic seizure.
- But true or not, it nowadays seems blimpish and offensive to many people. The Times Literary Supplement
- At eight, two years after the birth of his half-sister, his mother had ballooned into a blimp.
- Not surprisingly, the opinion of the people sitting around me was that the blimp was an absurd waste of taxpayer money.
- At the time, we had a very pretentious bar called simply The State Bar, complete with the original filming model of the blimp from Blade Runner over the bar and a collection of 20something SMU brats already so far gone in cocaine addiction that their noses looked like Michael Jackson's. Bad humor (Jack Bog's Blog)