Synonyms for blimp
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1. blimpnoun

   Synonyms:
   Gossage, barrage balloon, blimp out

2. blimpnoun

   A military middle class Englishman intolerant of others’ ideas.

   After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.

   Synonyms:
   Gossage, barrage balloon, blimp out

3. blimpnoun

   An obese person.

   Synonyms:
   Gossage, barrage balloon

4. blimpnoun

   A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.

   Synonyms:
   Gossage, barrage balloon

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1. Colonel Blimp, Blimpnoun

   any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)

   Synonyms:
   sausage, sausage balloon

2. blimp, sausage balloon, sausagenoun

   a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

   Synonyms:
   sausage, sausage balloon

Matched Categories

1. • Airship
   • Reactionary

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1. List of paraphrases for "blimp":

   dirigible, airship, cow

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How to use blimp in a sentence?

1. Philip Goldberg:

   We will add to its capability to put sensors on ships and put an aerostat blimp in the air to see into the maritime space.

2. Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad:

   Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

3. Nick Pope:

   Scientific advice should be sought when necessary for instance, if a soil sample needs to be checked for radioactivity, but one doesnt need to be a scientist, or even adopt a scientific methodology, to interview a witness, cross-check with information about flight paths and find out, say, that at the time and location of a particular UFO sighting, the Goodyear blimp was in the area.

4. Avi Yemini:

   I questioned them today at the blimp and I was called a Nazi, i’m wearing a kippah on my head and I was called a Nazi.