blimp

Other forms of blimp

plural

blimps·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blimp

What does blimp mean?

blimp means "any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blimp?

blimp has 1 syllable: blimp. In IPA it is /ˈblɪmp/.

What is another word for blimp?

Close synonyms include Colonel Blimp, sausage balloon, sausage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blimp a common word?

blimp is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.