1
: an airship that maintains its form by pressure from contained gas
2
capitalized
: colonel blimp
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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.
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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
The apartments were completed in 2012 and sit not far from the blimp hangar that burned in 2023.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 18 July 2025
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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
The apartments were completed in 2012 and sit not far from the blimp hangar that burned in 2023.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 18 July 2025
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“Blimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blimp. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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blimp
noun
: an airship filled with gas like a balloon
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