What is "blimps"

Usage examples of "blimps".

The blimps were like pets, and Phil had names for them: one was Led Zep of course, the others were the Graf Z, the Macon, the Penile Implant, and the largest and most colorful was the Uffin Wowo.

But his justified war with the Blimps has perhaps overcoloured his judgement.

One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.

Ten years of systematic Blimp-baiting affected even the Blimps themselves and made it harder than it had been before to get intelligent young men to enter the armed forces.

Both Blimps and highbrows took for granted, as though it were a law of nature, the divorce between patriotism and intelligence.

The left-wing intelligentsia wanted to go on and on, sniggering at the Blimps, sapping away at middle-class morale, but still keeping their favoured position as hangers-on of the dividend-drawers.

The Austrian monarchists have fallen foul of the German left-wingers, whom they accuse of being pan-Germans in disguise, and this delights the Blimps, who are always trying to manoeuvre their two enemies, Germany and Socialism, into the same place.

But the question is much complicated by the fact that the Blimps have a certain amount of right on their side.

The pinks cannot admit that the German masses are behind Hitler any more than the Blimps can admit that their class must be levered out of control if we are to win the war.

But it is doubtful whether the Blimps have ever read him with attention, any more than they have read the Bible.

But something or other appears to have made the Blimps feel much more sure of themselves.

The hatred which the Spanish Republic excited in millionaires, dukes, cardinals, play-boys, Blimps and what-not would in itself be enough to show one how the land lay.

There was a lot of empty space near the ceiling, and Phil had some home-built robot blimps cruising around up there like sluggish tropical fish.

The blimps nuzzled against him like lonely puppies, their silky skins rustling.

Phil opened his arched door, maybe for the last time, and herded the blimps out into the open space of the warehouse.