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Colonel Blimp
noun- a shrimp (seafood) UK
Rhyming slang, formed on the name of a character invented in the 1930s by cartoonist David Low and subsequently adopted as a conventional standard of bigotry and pompousness. - — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
- a very conservative, reactionary man UK, 1934
Often shortened to “blimp”. From the cartoon character invented by British cartoonist David Low, 1891–1963, and brought to life by Welsh actor Roger Livesey, 1906–76, in the film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943. - I realized I was in serious danger of turning into one of the Colonel Blimp types who sat around me in considerable numbers[.] — Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island, p. 249, 1995
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