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• n  any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)
• n  a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

• Taking the experience of travel to new heights, French innovator Jean-Marie Massaud has created Manned Cloud, an experimental airship or blimp that is also a hotel with a capacity .
• I also once took a ride alone with Tommy Hilfiger in the Tommy Hilfiger blimp, which I believe got destroyed in a freak blimp accident a week later.
• Thomas Hulce (the class "wimp"), Stephen Furst (the class "blimp"), James Daughton (a BMOC of ambiguous sexuality) and Karen Allen (as the sexiest of the animals' girls) are .

• Colonel Blimp
• Blimp
• sausage balloon
• sausage

News & Articles

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• 'Despicable Me 2' Blimp Flies Over Los Angeles (Photo)
  The 55 ft. by 165 ft. Despicablimp turned heads skyward as it promoted the Steve Carell animated movie. read more        
  June 15, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter
• Blimps Are Back
  The first golden age of floating dirigibles ended on approximately May 6, 1937 . The new golden age of blimpity bleep bloop blimps starts right now! Why fly something in an airplane when you could float that thing in a blimp, for a fraction of the price? Good question. Real good question. A company called Aeroscraft, with the help of the Defense Department's $$$, is ready to bring back blimps ...
  June 14, 2013 - Jalopnik
• A Blimp? Over Juneau?
  Most who saw it called it a blimp, but technically, it was an airship. The environmental group Greenpeace inflated the floating billboard at a Douglas Island ballfield Saturday evening, then flew over Gastineau Channel to downtown Juneau and back.
  June 10, 2013 - Alaska Public Radio Network

Quotes

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• Brad Childress in al.com (blog)
  We'll find out if that's an issue or not. He won't be around long if he turns into a blimp,Childress said.
• Drake Bell in FOXNews
  You grow up watching the Kids Choice Awards and you never expect to be taking a blimp home,said Drake Bell, the 20-year-old co-star of the teen comedy "Drake & Josh."
• Kenny Chesney in Kansas City Star
  It was an amazing - and at times scary - experience to have cameras that close, in the air, in a blimp,Chesney says. "But when you see what this film captures ...... even for me, who's in the eye of the storm, I was taken aback."