blimp
noun/blɪmp/
/blɪmp/
- (especially North American English) a small airship (= an aircraft without wings)
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- (also Colonel Blimp)(British English, old-fashioned, disapproving) an older person, especially an old army officer, with very old-fashioned political opinionsTopics Personal qualitiesc2
Word OriginFirst World War (in sense (1)): of uncertain origin. Sense (2) derives from the character invented by cartoonist David Low, used in anti-German or anti-government drawings before and during the Second World War.
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