Crossword clues for blimp
blimp
- Floating airship
- ''Snoopy One,'' e.g
- Zeppelin's kin
- Zeppelin relative
- Wingless craft
- Super Bowl spectator
- Super Bowl sight, often
- Super Bowl hoverer
- Source of some overhead coverage
- Source of overhead coverage
- Skycam locale
- Skycam carrier
- Provider of overhead coverage
- Provider of aerial coverage
- Pompous fat person
- Overhead view provider
- Overhead sight at a ballgame, perhaps
- Overhead coverage source
- MetLife symbol
- It may be seen above a playing field
- Inflated airship in the sky over a sporting event
- Inflatable aircraft that flies over sporting events
- Hoverer at a golf tourney
- Goodyear symbol
- Goodyear has a well-known one
- Goodyear floater
- Dirigible from Akron
- Dirigible cousin
- David Low's famous Colonel
- Craft seen on game day
- Craft from Akron, Ohio
- Bowl game sight
- Airship — barrage balloon
- Airborne Goodyear ad
- Aerial-photography medium
- Aerial view provider
- Advertising vehicle?
- Advertising vehicle
- "Black Sunday" airship
- Goodyear flier
- Aerial view provider at sports events
- Dirigible relative
- Super Bowl sighting
- No string bean
- It's often seen over a bowl
- Big gasbag?
- String bean's opposite
- Goodyear craft
- A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
- (British) any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)
- David Low's colonel
- TV camera position, maybe
- A colonel of cartoons
- Zeppelin's relative
- Ballon's relative
- Smug conservative
- Nonrigid airship
- Pompous, smug conservative
- Elderly pompous reactionary person
- Small barrage balloon
- Small airship
- First to burst flaccid balloon
- How Brexit begins with hopeless nationalist
- Airship - barrage balloon
- Pompous reactionary
- Bachelor flat from here one may observe
- It may be seen over a bowl
- Goodyear icon
- Thunder thighs
- Stadium hoverer
- Non-rigid airship
- It's full of gas
- It may float over a stadium
- It may be filled with helium
- Goodyear vehicle
- Goodyear has one
- Goodyear advertising icon
- Goodyear advertisement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blimp \Blimp\ n. [from Colonel Blimp, a fictional character] any elderly pompous reactionary.
Syn: Colonel Blimp.
2. a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon.
Syn: sausage balloon, sausage.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1916, of obscure origin, many claimants. "One of the weird coinages of the airmen" [Weekley]. Common theory is that it is from designers' prototype nickname Type B-limp, in the sense of "without internal framework," as opposed to Type A-rigid; thus see limp (adj.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container. 2 (context slang English) An obese person. 3 A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man. vb. (cx slang intransitive English) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
Wikipedia
A blimp, or non-rigid airship, is an airship (dirigible) without an internal structural framework or a keel. Unlike semi-rigid and rigid airships (e.g. Zeppelins), blimps rely on the pressure of the lifting gas (usually helium, rather than hydrogen) inside the envelope and the strength of the envelope itself to maintain its shape. The term is sometimes also used to refer to the tethered craft properly known as moored balloons. While often very similar in shape, moored balloons have no propulsion and are tethered to the ground.
A blimp is an airship without an internal supporting framework or keel.
Blimp may also refer to:
- A barrage balloon, a balloon used to support a steel cable as an anti-aircraft measure
- The Blimp, a rock band formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1998
- Blimp, a large, hollow windscreen put on a microphone to cut wind noise
- The Blimp, member of parody superhero team the Inferior Five
- "The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)", song from the album Trout Mask Replica (1969) by Captain Beefheart
Usage examples of "blimp".
Each time the Blimp touched down, the cilia would hit the water and paddle the beast into its next forward bound.
Jobs commented as they watched another Blimp float past, well out of reach.
Then he started running, slo-mo steps through the water, thrashing and splashing as the Blimp closed in.
He came shooting right back up but now had to swim to catch the Blimp, and swimming with ten feet of rope and a boomerang was not easy.
His whole body now formed a seal with the Blimp and he no longer worried much about sliding off.
The Blimp was coming around slowly and Wylson had organized everyone to be ready.
The Blimp bounded closer now, definitely in line to intercept the Remnants.
Tamara slung the baby onto her back, snatched the rope, and all but ran up the side of the Blimp and then, ignoring everyone else, she used the altitude to take a good look around.
The Riders were on the attack, ready to throw their javelins into the Blimp, and then they noticed Tamara.
He crashed into the Blimp and the spear in his neck stuck fast in the Blimp, pinning him like a butterfly in a display case.
Violet and Tate ran with him, ran directly away from the Blimp, hoping to spread out enough to allow each to be picked up.
Billy formed the image of a bolt of lightning coming out of the sky, striking the Blimp, igniting the gas within.
The blade bounced off the hide of the Blimp and, with most of its speed lost, tumbled into Olga, who picked it up.
If the Blimp kept its direction it would surely bounce into the Riders.
There was a sudden release, a very loud, recognizably embarrassing noise, and a burst of speed that shot the Blimp forward at twice its normal speed.