1. balloon - Noun
2. balloon - Verb
A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
A bomb or shell.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. Gene Fowler
Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals. Simon Hoggart
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. Walter Lippmann
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon. Robyn Hitchcock
Hands, do what you're bid Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. William Butler Yeats
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. A. A. Milne