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Definitions and meaning of blimp

blimp

Etymology

Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A.D. Cunningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.

There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence “blimp”. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the “Etymology of ‘Blimp’”, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that:

“there was no American ‘A-class’ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with ‘A’ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as ‘limp’. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.”

J.R.R. Tolkien's speculated that the word was a portmanteau word deriving from 'blister' and 'lump': 'the vowel i not u was chosen because of its diminutive significance -- typical of war humour'

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: blĭmp IPA^(key): /blɪmp/
• Rhymes: -ɪmp

Noun

blimp (plural blimps)

1. (aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
   • 2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker:

2. (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
3. (slang) An obese person.
4. A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
5. (film, television) A soundproof cover for a video camera.

   Synonym: barney

Synonyms

• barrage balloon
• Gossage
• nonrigid

Hypernyms

• airship
• dirigible

Derived terms

• Blimp
• blimpish
• sound blimp

Translations

Verb

blimp (third-person singular simple present blimps, present participle blimping, simple past and past participle blimped)

1. (slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
2. (transitive) To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.

Synonyms

• blimp out
• blimp up

Derived terms

• self-blimped

Translations

See also

• airship
• balloon
• dirigible
• zeppelin, Zeppelin

Further reading

• “blimp”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “blimp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English blimp.

Noun

blimp n (plural blimpuri)

1. blimp

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