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blimp

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1. blimp - Noun

2. blimp - Verb

Meaning

a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)

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At 2.5 million cubic feet, the Westinghouse/Airship Industries Sentinel 5000 (Redesignated YEZ-2A by the U. S. Navy) prototype design was to have been the largest blimp ever constructed. citation. Source: Internet

Commercial Indian filmmakers, known for their speed, never bothered to blimp the camera, and its excessive noise required that everything had to be re-created in the studio. Source: Internet

A nonrigid blimp carries all of its passengers within a gondola. Source: Internet

Marvel Studios blockbuster was voted Favorite Movie at Nickelodeon's 2020 Kids' Choice Awards, making it just the second Marvel movie to win the orange blimp after Avengers: Infinity War took home top prize during the 2019 ceremony. Source: Internet

Of the over 70,000 ships in convoys protected by blimps, only one was sunk by a submarine while under blimp escort. Source: Internet

An NSA spy blimp known as the Hover Hammer, which is able to eavesdrop on civillians from above, was active in Maryland, according to a report by The Intercept. Source: Internet

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