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Topic: AIR

Date: 1900-2000
Origin: Perhaps from 'Type B-limp', official name given to an airship without an inner frame

blimp

 noun
     
blimp [countable]
1TTA a small airship (=type of aircraft without wings)
2 American English spoken not polite an offensive word for a very fat person
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