blimp in English
- blimp⇄blimp (1), noun.
(Informal.)
1. a small, nonrigid, dirigible airship.
2. any dirigible.
3. a soundproof cover on a motion-picture camera. It prevents the camera's noise from reaching the sound track. - Blimp⇄Blimp orblimp (2), noun.
a pompous and complacent ultraconservative person.
Ex. [They] are silent because they're afraid of looking reactionary, like the blimps who turned out to be wrong about Van Gogh or Cezanne (Punch).