blimp

Related to blimp: Colonel Blimp

blimp out

1. offensive slang To become fat or fatter. Have you seen Phil recently? He's really blimped out since college.
2. slang To eat an excessive amount of food, especially junk food. It's hard not to blimp out at a Super Bowl party where there's a lot of junk food.
See also: blimp, out

blimped

slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really blimped!
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Colonel Blimp

An older man who is pompous or irritable and adheres to an outdated ideology. The name comes from a British comic strip character that first appeared in the London Evening Standard newspaper in 1934. Primarily heard in UK. He's such a Colonel Blimp when he starts ranting about his views on welfare and the poor.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

blimp out

to overeat; to eat too much and gain weight. I blimp out almost every weekend. If I could stop blimping out, I could lose some weight.
See also: blimp, out

Have a blimp!

Sl. Have a good year! (A reference to the Goodyear blimp, which is famous for being at notable events.) Good-bye. Have a blimp! Have a blimp! See you next summer.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

blimp

n. a nickname for an obese person. This enormous blimp managed to get on the plane but couldn’t get into a seat.

blimp out

in. to overeat. I love to buy a bag of chips and just blimp out.
See also: blimp, out

blimped

mod. alcohol intoxicated; swollen with drinking. I am still a little blimped from our party last night.
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Have a blimp!

exclam. Have a good year! (A play on Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, which operates the Goodyear blimp.) Have a blimp! See you next summer.
See also: have
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
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  • blimp out
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  • guns
  • iron poof
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
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References in periodicals archive
The pilot of a Pan American Clipper reported seeing the blimp at 10:49 but said he noticed nothing obviously amiss.
Ghost blimp
(The blimps did not want to attract attention and were operating under strict radio silence.) Lange, who was in K- 123, accidently discharged his pistol and illuminated the dark night sky with a brilliantly colored display.
K-ships across the atlantic
Gray sky was all we saw from the windows until the blimp leveled itself.
To ride the Spirit of Akron
Syngenta helped fulfill the program's mission to offer critically ill children a chance to believe in and focus on the future, rather than the stressful routine of hospital visits and treatments, by providing blimp rides to children at nine airports near hospitals throughout the tour.
Soaring high above the South
"There are many challenges to flying a blimp in a closed environment like this.
On the job
All told, MetLife blimps cover around 60 events a year for a variety of networks, including shots of events ranging from the U.S.
MetLife inflates blimp fleet
The blimp, however, will begin building brand awareness earlier, debuting at the 2007 Super Bowl.
Rockford-Montgomery Labs Inc
The full-size blimp is meant to be a relatively inexpensive disposable airship that would hover high over a military location for two to four weeks, sending pictures of activity on the ground and relaying communications, Neradka said.
Blimps in space
The existing system, however, is a combination of cameras and surveillance equipment positioned on high towers and tethered, unmanned blimps.
Blimp RAID: Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment system
Data collected by the blimp's sensor payload was also sent to an Army JLENS Battlefield Display Operations Center (BDOC) back at Freeway Airport for viewing by participants on the ground.
Blimp demo over Washington
This process involves loading a heavy-lift blimp with smaller UAVs that, in turn, are loaded with supplies.
Unmanned aerial logistics vehicles--a concept worth pursuing
Looming above college football games and state fairs last fall, the 1-800-MEDICARE blimp gave critics the impression that Medicare was flying high and living large.
Med zeppelin
21st Century Airships has been testing and perfecting this ball-like blimp since the mid-1990s.
Explain this!
We might fly off to Hawaii on a passenger blimp or (for serious shudders) an atomic airplane.
Alternate energy. (Letters From Our Readers)
Barney's editing technique then also enables the camera to move from macrocosmic to microcosmic scenario--from dancers on an open football field to grapes on the floor of a blimp's claustrophobic cabin--and give them equal spatial value.
"Matthew Barney: the CREMASTER cycle"; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. (Reviews)