blimp

noun

1
: an airship that maintains its form by pressure from contained gas
2
capitalized : colonel blimp

Examples of blimp in a Sentence

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The blimp delivered the 10-week-old pups from Long Beach, California, to Carson, California. Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025 As president, George H.W. Bush compared his dog, Ranger, to a blimp in a playful memo to White House staff noting a need to curb doggie treats because of canine corpulence. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025 The airship, about the size of a car at roughly 12 meters (40 feet) long, departs from the image of traditional blimps. Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025 In the first scene, the young man, whose mordantly resonant name is George Washington Black, or Wash (Ernest Kingsley Junior), is showing a father figure named Medwin, played by Brown, one of his latest inventions, a small prototype for a blimp. Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blimp

Word History

Etymology

imitative; perhaps from the sound made by striking the gas bag with the thumb

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of blimp was in 1916

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“Blimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blimp. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

Kids Definition

blimp

noun
: an airship filled with gas like a balloon

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