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blimp

noun
🔊/blɪmp/
🔊/blɪmp/
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  1. (especially North American English) a small airship软式飞艇 (= an aircraft without wings)
  2. (also Colonel Blimp)
     (British English, old-fashioned, disapproving) an older person, especially an old army officer, with very old-fashioned political opinions政见保守的老人（尤指年长的军官）Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    3. Word OriginFirst World War (in sense (1)): of uncertain origin. Sense (2) derives from the character invented by cartoonist David Low, used in anti-German or anti-government drawings before and during the Second World War.